Public advisory about public input period?

Posted by Phil Andrews

Perhaps it was just folks in our newsroom thinking this way.

But our newsroom team was thinking it was pretty inconspicuous how the public had been invited to participate in a 60-day period to offer input about a proposed special, 10-year, arrangement that would allow the local Owens Corning plant to operate outside of pending new emissions regulations.

We only learned about the public input process after engaging in a follow-up story effort related to Owens Corning's application for such relief.

Had there been no media work about this matter, I wonder how many locals would have been aware of this 60-day input period that ends early next month.

Certainly, more effort went into informing the public of the intention of the firm to seek this site-specific emissions operating standard, a year ago.