![]() Thanks in part to our efforts, the court denied an industry attempt to halt implementation of some Clean Air Act rules, making way for regulation of the biggest industrial polluters' greenhouse gas emissions back in 2011. The Center is devoted to defending the EPA’s rules protecting our climate under the Clean Air Act - all of which are, or likely will be, under legal attack by industry special-interest groups and backward-looking states. In late 2010 the EPA finally announced it would set industry-wide limits for greenhouse gas pollution from refineries and power plants under the “new source performance standards” of the Clean Air Act. ![]() But the EPA also narrowed the scope of this requirement considerably under its so-called “tailoring rule,” which initially limits the permitting program to only a few hundred very large sources of greenhouse gases, letting a huge number of significant sources off the hook. It acknowledged that major new or modified “stationary” sources of greenhouse pollution, like power plants and factories, must get permits and control their emissions before construction. It issued a formal finding that greenhouse pollution endangers public health and welfare and moved to limit emissions from passenger cars and trucks. The EPA has taken some initial steps toward curbing greenhouse pollution under the Act. Environmental Protection Agency that CO 2 is indeed an air pollutant, ordering the EPA to start regulating its emission. ![]() After the Center joined a large coalition of groups, states and cities in challenging that response, in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. Back in 1999 the International Center for Technology Assessment petitioned to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from automobiles under the Clean Air Act - and the Bush administration's response was to deny that CO 2 is an “air pollutant” within the Act's broad definition. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate air pollutants in order to protect public health and welfare. ![]()
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