ACTIVISTS VOW TO PUSH EPA TO EXPAND GHG RULES BEYOND AUTOMOBILES

摘要

EPA's finding that greenhouse gases (GHGs) endanger public health and welfare, which will spur emission rules for motor vehicles, is prompting environmentalists to call for broader regulation of other mobile sources including planes and ships, and to urge the agency to pursue separate rules to cut GHG emissions from power plants.rnActivists say that swift issuance of agency regulations mandating cuts in GHG emissions from major mobile sources and power plants will address the most significant contributors to climate change while also adding to pressure on Congress to pass broad legislation creating a cap-and-trade program to cut GHGs.rnHowever, industry sources counter that EPA's current plan to issue GHG rules only for motor vehicles hints at an optimism in the agency that Congress will take the lead on addressing all emissions sources, rather than have the agency conduct the extensive administrative process to issue a host of climate rules.