EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for new Power Plants and Oil Refinery emission standards over the next year. In an announcement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with Pollution contributing to Climate Change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured an...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on Power Plant and Oil Refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with Pollution contributing to Climate Change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and c...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
(12-24) 06:24 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on Power Plant and Oil Refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with Pollution contributing to Climate Change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
WASHINGTON — Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on Power Plant and Oil Refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency’s website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with Pollution contributing to Climate Change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and...

EPA Moving Unilaterally To Limit Greenhouse Gases
Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on Power Plant and Oil Refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with Pollution contributing to Climate Change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2010 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, listens during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. The Obama Administration is moving through regulatory channels to clamp down on greenhouse Gas Emissions after Congress failed to act on new Legislation. WASHINGTON—Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on Power Plant and Oil Refinery greenhouse emissions, announcin...

EPA Moves to Unilaterally Impose Carbon Caps
From the Associated Press: Stymied in Congress, the Obama Administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on Power Plant and Oil Refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency’s website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with Pollution contributing to Climate Change. “We are following through on our commitment to proceed i...

EPA Announces Landmark Greenhouse Gas Regulations Plan For Nation's Biggest Polluters
The Huffington Post Zoe Triska First Posted: 12-23-10 The Obama Administration announced landmark plans Thursday to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Unites States. A Press Release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that new standards granted under the Clean Air Act will be implemented in 2012. The EPA also announced that it is taking unprecedented action to issue air permits to industries in Texas, due to the state's non-compliance with new regulations...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama Administration is moving through regulatory channels to clamp down on greenhouse Gas Emissions after Congress failed to act on new Legislation. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new plan for establishing greenhouse gas Pollution standards under provisions of the Clean Air Act. In an announcement posted late Thursday on EPA’s website, administrator Lisa Jackson said officials “are following through on our commitment to proceed in a m...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases
The Obama Administration is moving through regulatory channels to clamp down on greenhouse Gas Emissions after Congress failed to act on new Legislation. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new plan for establishing greenhouse gas Pollution standards under provisions of the Clean Air Act. In an announcement posted late Thursday on EPA's website, administrator Lisa Jackson said officials "are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way" to reduce p...

EPA presents plan on greenhouse gases. Can Congress stop it?
Setting the stage for a New Year battle royale between Congress and the White House over greenhouse Gas Emissions, the US Environmental Protection Agency Thursday laid out a timetable for the nation's largest carbon emitters -- Power Plants and refineries -- to begin curbing those pollutants. Republicans have said all year that they plan to pull out all the stops to keep the EPA from phasing in greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations beginning in 2011, saying they would damage the energy industry, rais...

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases (AP)
WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration is moving through regulatory channels to clamp down on greenhouse Gas Emissions after Congress failed to act on new Legislation. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new plan for establishing greenhouse gas Pollution standards under provisions of the Clean Air Act. In an announcement posted late Thursday on EPA's website, administrator Lisa Jackson said officials "are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and car...

Carbon accountants stand to profit from EPA plan to regulate emissions
Photo: William N.The U.S. EPA's move Thursday to issue a plan for the Regulation of greenhouse Gas Emissions from large industrial Polluters will undoubtedly intensify the climate-change war. But for a host of startups that make software to manage corporate Carbon Emissions, the EPA action is a holiday gift that will keep on giving year-round. The agency will propose emission standards for Fossil Fuel Power Plants and oil refineries -- which it says account for almost 40 percent of the nation's ...

EPA moves to curb emissions from power plants, refineries
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday that it would regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from Power Plants and oil refineries next year, targeting the nation's two biggest sources of Carbon Dioxide. The move, part of a legal settlement with several states, local governments and environmental groups that have sued EPA under the Bush Administration for failing to act, highlights the Obama Administration's intent to press ahead with curbs on carbon despite c...

EPA Moves Toward Limits on Greenhouse Gases
In what could be one of the most significant regulatory changes since its founding, the EPA has moved toward imposing limits on Greenhouse Gases with a finding that such gases now present a “serious problem . . . for future generations.” The move could have widespread environmental benefits apart from Climate Change in forcing more fuel efficient cars and greater limitations on Power Plants and industrial sources. The EPA finding of endangerment prepares allows for the EPA to act if ...

Obamas EPA such a busy little bee [Darleen Click]
Addendum to JeffG’s post … not only do we have the EPA threatening to take over “permiting” in Texas because of Texas’ fighting the notion that CO2 is a “pollutant”, we also have an EPA setting schedules when it admits it has no clue what the final standards will require : Reporting from Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency announced a timetable Thursday to curtail greenhouse Gas Emissions from two major sources of the Pollution scientist...

Clean Air standards coming for Americas biggest carbon polluters
Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a big step forward to protect Americans' health and well-being, the EPA announced today a two-year plan to set clean air standards for Power Plants and oil refineries, the two largest industrial sources of the dangerous Pollution that drives Global Warming. Following on the heels of the Obama Administration's breakthrough clean car standards, the EPA is now taking the next logical steps under the Clean Air Act and the Supreme Court's l...

EPA Acts Unilaterally on Climate Change
Frustrated that it couldn't achieve desired environmental Legislation despite huge majorities in both Houses of Congress, the Obama Administration has decided to govern by executive fiat....

EPA continues war against Texas jobs
Image via Wikipedia Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it would regulate greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Plants and oil refineries next year, targeting the nation's two biggest sources of Carbon Dioxide. The move, which comes as part of a legal settlement with several states, local governments and environmental groups which have sued EPA under the Bush Administration for failing to act, highlights the Obama Administration's intent to press ahead wi...

EPA presents plan on greenhouse gases. Can next Congress stop it?
The EPA set out a timetable Thursday for curbing the emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants and refineries. But Republicans have signaled their steady opposition, and a battle looms....

White House presses for new climate, wilderness protections
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will regulate greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Plants and oil refineries next year in an attempt to curb Global Warming. This Story White House presses for new climate, wilderness protections Interactive Timeline: 40 Years of the EPA The move, coming on the same day the Interior Department unveiled a plan to protect a broader swath of the nation's wilderness, demonstrated that the Obama Administration is prepared to push its en...

Upton vows fight against EPA climate rules for power plants and refineries
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to set greenhouse Gas Emissions standards for Power Plants and refineries drew a quick threat from Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the incoming chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. "We will not allow the administration to regulate what they have been unable to legislate — this Christmas surprise is nothing short of a backdoor attempt to implement their failed job-killing cap-and-trade scheme,” Upton said in a statement.

EPA may regulate Texas greenhouse gases
A spokesman for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality called the letter "an arrogant act by an overreaching EPA," the Austin American-Statesman reported. The commission says the regulations that are supposed to take effect Jan. 2 have no scientific basis and will raise prices and cost Texas jobs. "State officials in Texas have made clear that they have no intention of implementing this portion of the federal air permitting program," Al Armendariz, the EPA regional administrator for the E...

How Republicans Behave: Greenhouse Gases Edition
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced "that it will regulate greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Plants and oil refineries next year in an attempt to curb Global Warming." This is nothing new or surprising, given that the EPA basically has to do this - per a 1997, Bush-era Supreme Court ruling "that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by improperly declining to regulate new-vehicle emissions standards to control the pollutants that scientists say con...

EPA Sharpens Its Regulative Teeth
A smokestack from a Power Plant near Lansing, MI. Though politically vague and without immediate action, the Environment Protection Agency has announced it will put some regulative pressure on power plants and oil refineries to limit greenhouse Gas Emissions by the end of 2012. —JCL The Environmental Protection Agency announced a timetable on Thursday for issuing rules limiting greenhouse Gas Emissions from power plants and oil refineries, signaling a resolve to press ahead on such regula...