2008-07-13
The EPA Announcement. Statement by Stephen Johnson, EPA Newsroom, July 12, 2008. "Today, EPA released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [PDF, 588 pp], or ANPR, soliciting public input on effects of climate change and the potential ramifications of the Clean Air Act in relation to greenhouse gas emissions. This ANPR will allow EPA to have a better understanding of the consequences of regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act and inform Congress as it debates greenhouse gas legislation... One point is clear: the potential regulations of greenhouse gases under any portion of the Clean Air Act could result in an unprecedented expansion of EPA authority that would have a profound effect on virtually every sector of the economy. While EPA's staff has done an outstanding job making a square peg fit into a round hole, I believe the ANPR demonstrates the Clean Air Act is ill-suited for the task of regulating global greenhouse gases. Based on the analyses to date, pursuing this course of action would take decades and inevitably result in a very complicated and likely, convoluted set of regulations. If our nation is truly serious about regulating greenhouse gases, the Clean Air Act is the wrong tool for the job
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