State Officials Press Epa To Regulate Co2 While Power Industry Urges Waiting For New Law

摘要

While industry argues against using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, states' attorneys and air regulatory officials are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to proceed with its authority and control man-made heat-trapping emissions. California Air Resources BoaTd Chairwoman Mary Nichols, who is widely spoken of as among those considered to head EPA in the Obama administration, joined air regulators from seven other states recently in recommending that the agency immediately address GHG emissions from tailpipes. EPA should also move quickly to set emissions and efficiency standards for all new and modified power plants and large industrials, according to the regulators from Arizona, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Washington, in addition to California. In addition to EPA using its Clean Air Act authority to limit GHG emissions, comprehensive federal legislation is necessary to establish a national climate change policy, the state air and environmental regulators said.