NPRA says court decision on GHGs bad for consumers
Charles Drevna, president of NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, issued the following statement regarding the decision by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the motion by NPRA and several other trade associations to partially stay implementation of pending Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas regulations:
Today, yet another blow was dealt in favor of overreaching government regulation and against the economic well-being of the American people. EPAs plan to control greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is a clear distortion of current environmental law and Congress intent when the Clear Air Act was enacted. Were disappointed that the court has chosen to deny our motion for a partial stay of EPAs greenhouse gas regulations. Todays action means that EPAs invasive and misguided regulations will be imposed on our nations businesses and manufacturers at the beginning of 2011.
The Clean Air Act has been an effective tool for doing what it was meant to do improve air quality in cities and communities throughout the country. The law was simply never designed or intended to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases, and no amount of wishful thinking or flawed reasoning on EPAs part will make it so.
Unfortunately, todays court decision only further enables EPA to continue down the road of costly, ineffective regulation of our nations economy. The environmental benefits of EPAs actions to control greenhouse gases will be negligible at best, but the consequences of these economically harmful regulations will be felt by every American family.
The motion to stay EPAs June 3, 2010, Prevention of Significant Determination and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule, filed in August by a coalition of organizations including NPRA, was before the US.Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The rule, along with EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from a variety of stationary sources, is scheduled to go into effect January 2, 2011.
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