E.P.A. Plans to Phase in Regulation of Emissions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/business/energy-environment/23epa.html

E.P.A. Plans to Phase in Regulation of Emissions

By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: February 22, 2010

WASHINGTON — Facing wide criticism over their recent finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public welfare, top Environmental Protection Agency officials said Monday that any regulation of such gases would be phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on most American businesses.

The E.P.A.’s administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, wrote http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/19132862f2b332de852576d2007d866c?OpenDocument">in a letter to eight coal-state Democrats who have sought a moratorium on regulation that only the biggest sources of greenhouse gases would be subjected to limits before 2013. Smaller ones would not be regulated before 2016, she said.

“I share your goals of ensuring economic recovery at this critical time and of addressing greenhouse gas emissions in sensible ways that are consistent with the call for comprehensive energy and climate legislation,” Ms. Jackson wrote.

The eight Democratic senators, led by John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, said hugely significant decisions about energy, the economy and the environment should be made by elected representatives, not by federal bureaucrats.

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