EPA's moving the goal posts...again!
Today, SCCA had the honor of being the sole representative of the construction industry at an air quality public hearing in Sacramento held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The topic was "Reconsideration of the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone."  This means EPA is moving the goal posts on ozone regulation just two years after it tightened the standards last.

This is standard practice for the regulatory agencies – once they have the ball moving, they keep it moving and when they get close to their announced goal, they announce a new one. The room was crowded – 20 representatives from the Sierra Club, a dozen from the American Lung Association, and singles and pairs from every other environmental group you can imagine. This is important to our industry because the new standard will cause 96 percent of the counties in the country to fail to meet the new goal, requiring reductions in business activity, transportation and denial of funding for new highway projects.