Public Hearings set for Input on Environmental Rules

State regulators are holding public hearings this month on proposed revisions to environmental rules. The first hearing is set for Monday on seven proposed Division of Air Quality rules. The rules include emission standards for hazardous air pollutants. They’ll take public comments on a surface mining reclamation rule at a July 24 hearing, and that hearing also includes proposed administrative proceedings and civil penalty assessment for coal mining facilities. A hearing on an aboveground storage tanks rule will be held July 30. All of the hearings will be held at the Department of Environmental Protection’s headquarters in Charleston, beginning at 6 p.m.