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Environmental Groups Press EPA to Regulate Carbon Dioxide From Existing Power Plants
http://www.bna.com/environmental-groups-press-n12884909647/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Environmental Groups Press EPA to Regulate Carbon Dioxide From Existing Power Plants[/font]
Friday, May 25, 2012
from World Climate Change Report®
By Andrew Childers
[font size=3]WASHINGTON, D.C.--Environmental and public health advocates pressed the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants during a May 24 hearing on a proposal to limit carbon dioxide from new fossil fuel-fired units.
EPA proposed carbon dioxide limits April 13 for new fossil fuel-fired power plants, but the proposal exempts existing and modified sources.
At the hearing at EPA headquarters, Paul Billings, vice president of policy and advocacy at the American Lung Association, called EPA's proposal “an important first step” toward regulating greenhouse gases. However, he urged regulation of existing sources as well.
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Darin Schroeder of the Clean Air Task Force also pressed EPA to act on existing power plants. Administrator Lisa Jackson said when the rule was proposed that the agency has “no plans” to do so in the immediate future.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
from World Climate Change Report®
By Andrew Childers
[font size=3]WASHINGTON, D.C.--Environmental and public health advocates pressed the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants during a May 24 hearing on a proposal to limit carbon dioxide from new fossil fuel-fired units.
EPA proposed carbon dioxide limits April 13 for new fossil fuel-fired power plants, but the proposal exempts existing and modified sources.
At the hearing at EPA headquarters, Paul Billings, vice president of policy and advocacy at the American Lung Association, called EPA's proposal “an important first step” toward regulating greenhouse gases. However, he urged regulation of existing sources as well.
…
Darin Schroeder of the Clean Air Task Force also pressed EPA to act on existing power plants. Administrator Lisa Jackson said when the rule was proposed that the agency has “no plans” to do so in the immediate future.
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