EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has laid out the timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Writing in a letter to lawmakers, Jackson said she plans to start targeting large facilities such as power plants next year but won't target small emitters before 2016. Jackson pledged that any regulation of such gases would be phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on most American businesses.
The letter makes it clear the Obama administration will move ahead, as it is required by the Clean Air Act, unless Congress moves to stop it. In the letter Jackson said she shares lawmakers' 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.
Jackson also wrote that an effort by Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would undo a deal struck last year between the auto industry, the administration and several states to limit greenhouse gases from cars and light trucks.
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