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EPA may raise GHG control threshold, Jackson says

03/01/2010
By Nick Snow
The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering raising the threshold at which refineries and other large industrial plants would be required to control greenhouse gases (GHGs) beyond the 25,000 tons/year originally proposed.Responding to a Feb. 19 letter from John D. Rockefeller IV (W.Va.) and seven other Senate Democrats, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson did not specify what the new threshold might be. She said she expects EPA to begin regulating GHG emissions at refineries, chemical plants, and other large industrial facilities next year under the Clean Air Act. No regulations are planned for 2010."In the first half of 2011, only those facilities that must apply for [CAA] p...
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