Client Alert
| October 13, 2009
Climate Change Regulatory Update: EPA Announces Proposed Rules Establishing Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements for Stationary Sources
On September 28, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposed a rule that, in concert with the agency's proposed endangerment finding, would result in the regulation of greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from motor vehicles. As EPA warned in its July 2008 Advanced Notice of Public Rulemaking in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007), the regulation of GHG emissions from motor vehicles would have immediate implications for "major" stationary sources of GHG emissions, potentially subjecting them to new Clean Air Act permitting requirements.
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