基本信息
the epa’s move to regulate carbon: a stopgap solution on the long list of things that keep coal-industry executives awake at night is the possibility that the environmental protection a gency (epa) will begin to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. now it seems that nightmare is at hand. on feb. 17, epa administrator lisa jackson announced that the agency would reconsider a bush administration decision not to regulate co2 emissions from new coal power plants. the next day, she backed up that statement by telling the new york times she was considering acting on an april 2007 supreme court decision that empowers the epa to regulate co2 as a pollutant under the clean air act. “what this says is that the clean air act already provides the government with the chance to do something about
