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Eleven states demand EPA revise airplane pollution rule

October 21, 2020

Via: Jurist

The attorneys general for eleven US states and the District of Columbia submitted a comment letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday, demanding that the agency regulate airplane exhaust pollution more strictly than the Trump administration proposed.

During the Obama administration, the EPA first proposed regulating emissions of greenhouse gasses from airplanes in 2011 and promulgated a final rule in 2016 requiring the agency to begin to regulate aircraft exhaust pollution.

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