EPA lays out timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions

Source: Washington Post

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson laid out the timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions Monday, writing in a letter to lawmakers that she plans to start targeting large facilities such as power plants next year but won't target small emitters before 2016.

The letter makes it clear the Obama administration will move ahead with curbing global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act unless Congress moves to stop it. Jackson emphasized that the administration was required to act under a 2007 Supreme Court decision that said greenhouse gases from motor vehicles qualified as a pollutant under the 40-year-old air-quality law. Jackson was responding to a letter several coal-state senators sent her late Friday.

"I share your goals of ensuring economic recovery at this critical time and of addressing greenhouse-gas emissions in sensible ways that are consistent with the call for comprehensive energy and climate legislation," she wrote.
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Jackson also wrote that an effort by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would undo a deal struck last year between the auto industry, the administration and several states to limit greenhouse gases from cars and light trucks.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204829.html

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And my rec. will negate one of those trolls.

I'm sure the money wo/men will be distraught and do everything they can to derail efforts for clean air.

Esp. this one. When they actually bring the regs in line with statute--whether by the current plans or because their current plans will be litigated and they'll be under court order--it'll be quite unpleasant to watch the regulatory authority's control spread.

But it's okay--they can avoid the strict compliance that some argued was required, and which necessitated regulating CO2, at least for a while. Long enough that the unpleasantness can't possibly be under her current boss.