Coalition Comments to White House on EPA’s PM NAAQs Proposal

In a letter to the White House Chief of Staff, ARTBA and its allies urge the Administration to ensure the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), saying the proposed discretionary revision to this standard could:

• Put nearly 40% of the U.S. population in areas of nonattainment.
• Risk jobs and livelihoods by making it even more difficult to obtain permits for new factories, facilities and infrastructure to power economic growth.
• Threaten successful implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and the important clean energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
• Force investment in new facilities to foreign countries with less stringent air standards, thereby undermining the administration’s economic and environmental goals.