EPA to Study Regulating GHG Emissions in Response to Last Year's Supreme Court Decision

摘要

Almost a year after the U.S. Supreme Court determined that U.S. EPA has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, EPA has said it will conduct further study to figure out how to do so. EPA is arguing that although the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA (see OW 04/09/2007) applied specifically to vehicles, the scope could be widened to other industry and other mobile sources as well. As a result, EPA will solicit public input through an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, in which EPA considers the effects of climate change and GHG emissions from stationary and mobile sources.