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US EPA Accelerates Pace of Climate Change Regulations



by Roger W. Patrick
Mayer Brown LLP - Washington Office

David B. Finnegan
Mayer Brown LLP - Washington Office

October 28, 2009

Previously published on October 23, 2009

While Congress continues to work on new US climate change legislation, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is rapidly cranking out greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations under the existing Clean Air Act (CAA). Two of the Agency's recent initiatives -- a final rule requiring annual reporting of GHG emissions and proposed thresholds for GHG emissions under the CAA's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V permitting programs -- are addressed below.


 

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