E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By JOHN M. BRODER
NYT
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule Wednesday to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions from thousands of power plants and large industrial facilities.
The proposal, long anticipated and highly controversial, marks the first government move toward controlling the emissions blamed for the warming of the planet from stationary sources. The E.P.A. has already proposed an ambitious program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, expected to take effect early next year.
The proposal would require construction and operating permits for facilities emitting at least 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide and five other climate-altering pollutants per year. The threshold is 100 times higher than that required for other types of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxide that have more acute health and environmental effects.
Lisa P. Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator, said that while the rule would affect about 14,000 large CO2 sources, most of them are already subject to clean air permitting requirements because they emit other pollutants.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule Wednesday to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions from thousands of power plants and large industrial facilities.
The proposal, long anticipated and highly controversial, marks the first government move toward controlling the emissions blamed for the warming of the planet from stationary sources. The E.P.A. has already proposed an ambitious program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, expected to take effect early next year.
The proposal would require construction and operating permits for facilities emitting at least 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide and five other climate-altering pollutants per year. The threshold is 100 times higher than that required for other types of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxide that have more acute health and environmental effects.
Lisa P. Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator, said that while the rule would affect about 14,000 large CO2 sources, most of them are already subject to clean air permitting requirements because they emit other pollutants.
(More here.)
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