EPA REVIEWS SNAP RULES TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY WITH POSITION IN CO2 SUIT

EPA is scrutinizing its long-established practice of considering the global warming potential (GWP) of proposed substitutes for ozone-depleting substances to ensure it is consistent with the agency's arguments in the pending Supreme Court case over EPA authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from mobile sources. An agency source says officials are reviewing two draft regulations for the agency's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program -- which prescribes alternatives to ozone-depleting chemicals -- over concerns that criteria the agency uses...