'Removing the shackles': Major proposal could lower gas prices in this state

A legislative proposal in Arizona hopes to lower gas prices amid a recent appeal to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Currently, federal ozone attainment standards have prompted parts of the state, especially heavily populated Maricopa County, to use a "boutique" blend of gasoline since 1997, and it is the only place in the country that has done so. 

The legislative proposal would make it state law for other types of gasoline blends to be used aside from the...