In Brief: Connecticut VOCs
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Connecticut VOCs: Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) concludes that consumer product volatile organic compound reductions are unnecessary to meet the state's VOC reduction goal of 15% by 1996 and is thus postponing development of a consumer products rule establishing VOC standards. Also, national rules currently being created by the U.S. EPA "would obviate the need for our proposed rule," the agency adds. However, the state may reactivate the rulemaking if the federal rulemaking is delayed or if the state rule becomes necessary...