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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Industry to EPA on climate regs: Let’s talk

09/10/13

Industry groups are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure they’re “actively included” as the agency crafts carbon emissions standards for power plants, a pillar of President Obama’s climate agenda. In a new letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, groups representing manufacturers, coal producers, power companies, refiners, railroads, agribusiness and other sectors press for rules that are “economically achievable” using existing technology. “[I]t is critical that carbon regulations are developed using the best available technical information to ensure that standards are set at achievable levels based on commercially and economically viable technologies and that new rules take proper account of potential impacts to the economy and jobs,” states the letter from groups including the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce and the National Mining Association. ...Read more

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