Oil Industry Blasts Obama EPA for Upcoming Climate, Ozone Regulations

[babylonsister]

So the EPA and the Obama administration must be doing something right.


Oil Industry Blasts Obama EPA for Upcoming Climate, Ozone Regulations
By Andrew Restuccia 10/27/10 4:00 PM


The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s national trade organization, criticized the Obama administration today — and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular — for its efforts to impose new limits on greenhouse gas emissions and ozone pollution. The group also targeted the EPA’s recent decision to approve a waiver allowing gasoline to be mixed with up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) in newer vehicles.

The administration is expected to issue new greenhouse gas standards for power plants early next year, exercising its regulatory authority now that efforts in the Senate to pass a climate bill have failed. It also plans to tighten standards for ozone pollutants, which have been linked to asthma.

On a conference call with reporters today, API staffers said the new rules will impose huge costs on the business community and the oil and natural gas industry. For example, API argues that it will be costly to comply with the new ozone rules. According to a chart provided to TWI by the trade group, as many as 2,990 of the total 3,099 counties in the contiguous United States won’t meet the strictest ozone standards being considered by the administration. The numbers are based on ozone monitoring and “interpolated” estimates of ozone for those areas where ozone readings are not available.

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http://washingtonindependent.com/101836/oil-industry-blasts-obama-epa-for-upcoming-climate-ozone-regulations

[DCKit]

1. Then they must be doing something right. n/t

[babylonsister]

2. That is right, and you stole my line! nt