Clean Air Act Digest, 2.3.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: In a conference committee meeting February 2nd on the payroll tax bill, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) called for including H.R. 2250, the bill to block EPA’s standards to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants from industrial boilers. The House passed H.R. 2250 in October; similar legislation [...]

16 States and New York City Back the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on CO2

When the EPA issued guidelines on regulating large stationary sources of CO2 late last year through the authority of the Clean Air Act, industry groups voiced their displeasure while environmentalists celebrated. Some of those industry groups, including Massey Energy and three other coal companies, the Industrial Miners Association and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, filed [...]