EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants

EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants

EPA is legally obligated to issue rules regulating CO2 from existing power plants. Dave Roberts at Grist is (eternally) puzzled that folks don’t seem to know that. Since eternity is a very long time — only slightly longer than the lifetime of some CO2 molecules in the air — I’ll repost his key points: In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Mass v. EPA that CO2 qualifies as a pollutant under the Clea

8 by Joe Romm / 20h http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/17/2027071/epa-required-regulate-carbon-pollution-from-existing-power-plants/?mobile=nc&utm_source=feedly