Businesses, Environmental Group Offer Principles For Epa Regulation Of Emissions

摘要

The Environmental Defense Fund and a coalition of businesses released a set of principles Dec. 2 for action by the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.rn'The Clean Air Act architecture provides for flexibility mechanisms, performance standards, and source-specific emission limitations, depending on the source of emissions and the underlying statutory authority,' the groups-including several U.S. power companies and other companies-said in a joint statement.rnCongress should enact comprehensive climate change legislation, they said, but until that is done, 'commonsense progress' can be made under existing law.rnThe statement did not specifically urge EPA to move forward with a regulation, but acknowledged that the agency is likely to issue a rule, and the principles spell out ways EPA should go about it.