GOP senator races to block EPA’s smog rules

Published July 1, 2016 4:01am ET



A GOP senator is racing against the clock to pass a bill that would push back compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s strict smog rules, though it’s not clear the Senate will move to pass it in an election year.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., chairwoman of the environment committee’s clean air panel, is working to find time to markup the bill before the August recess, because she suspects nothing will get done in the fall.

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