Trump tells EPA to ease compliance with smog statutes
WASHINGTON — President Trump has taken aim at federal air quality standards, directing the Environmental Protection Agency to relax restrictions on state governments and businesses that have been key to cutting smog.
In a memo Thursday, the president instructed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to more quickly review states’ smog-reduction plans, make it easier for businesses to get air quality-related permits and to evaluate health-based smog and soot standards to determine whether they “should be revised or rescinded,” among other directives.