Coalition says Congress’ regulation of greenhouse gas emmissions could harm American economy
June 10th, 2010 - 12:59 am ICT by BNO NewsWASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – A group of trade associations is urging U.S. senators to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from going around Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, National Petrochemical & Refiners Association said Wednesday.
The group represents a total of 24 trade associations that provide jobs to millions of Americans, and it sent a letter to all senators urging them to support Senate Joint Resolution 26, a bipartisan measure introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The reslution would be overturning EPA’s intent to regulate these gas emissions.
The group is claiming that EPA’s 2009 “endangerment” finding, which concluded that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, made way for EPA to regulate car and light-duty truck emissions of greenhouse gases. This in turn has triggered subsequent EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from other commercial and industrial sources.
“Massive and rapidly imposed restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions would harm the American economy and hit every American in his or her wallet,” said Charles T. Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association.
The group also urged senators to reject any effort to codify the EPA’s recently released “tailoring” rule into law. That rule would subject only stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions of 100,000 tons or more annually to state government permitting requirements under the Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act, however, sets a permitting threshold of 250 tons annually for emissions from major sources.
“If EPA’s aggressive campaign to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is successful, it will add billions of dollars to the cost of doing business in the United States, raise the cost of energy and other products for American families, wipe out the jobs of millions of American workers, and simply shift greenhouse gas emissions from the United States to other nations without any increase in environmental protection,” Drevna added.
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