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API bashes EPA endangerment finding, but enviro group cheers
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12/07/09 12:28 PM ET
The country’s largest oil-and-gas industry trade group today attacked EPA’s pending conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, which is a precursor to EPA regulating the emissions under its current Clean Air Act powers.
American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard, in a prepared statement, said such regulation would be “intrusive, inefficient, and excessively costly,” and prevent job growth.
“There was no compelling deadline that forced EPA’s hand on this decision. It is a decision that is clearly politically motivated to coincide with the start of the Copenhagen climate summit,” he said.
But Environment America applauded the announcement that is expected early this afternoon.
“The stage is now set for EPA to hold the biggest global warming polluters accountable. The Senate also must act to set overall pollution-reduction goals and to accelerate the move to clean energy, but it’s up to EPA to crack down on pollution from cars and mega industrial polluters, like coal-fired power plants,” said Emily Figdor, the group’s federal global warming program director, in a statement.
American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard, in a prepared statement, said such regulation would be “intrusive, inefficient, and excessively costly,” and prevent job growth.
“There was no compelling deadline that forced EPA’s hand on this decision. It is a decision that is clearly politically motivated to coincide with the start of the Copenhagen climate summit,” he said.
But Environment America applauded the announcement that is expected early this afternoon.
“The stage is now set for EPA to hold the biggest global warming polluters accountable. The Senate also must act to set overall pollution-reduction goals and to accelerate the move to clean energy, but it’s up to EPA to crack down on pollution from cars and mega industrial polluters, like coal-fired power plants,” said Emily Figdor, the group’s federal global warming program director, in a statement.
