Industry, GOP Challenge EPA Over Costs Data For Air Act Climate Agenda

November 27, 2009
Industry and Republican lawmakers are challenging EPA over the potential economic costs of its pending Clean Air Act rules to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with industry arguing that EPA has failed to adequately analyze such costs and the GOP arguing that the agency has an air act duty to calculate the rules' impact on jobs. Petrochemical industry officials are also questioning the legality one of the upcoming rules -- a proposal "tailoring" air act permitting requirements on first-time GHG...


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