Oregon Joins Legal Fight Over Carbon Emissions

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SALEM, Ore. — Attorney General John Kroger announced Thursday that Oregon has joined a legal fight in support of federal regulation of large industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

“The science is clear. Global climate change harms public health, and the EPA is taking the right approach by focusing on the big sources of pollution,” Kroger said.

Last year, EPA Director Lisa Jackson departed from the Bush Administration’s longstanding refusal to embrace widely accepted scientific findings that greenhouse gases harm the environment and public health.

Since then, Kroger said, the EPA has taken steps to begin addressing the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the country by requiring permits for the largest industrial sources.

In response, a group backed by oil, steel and chemical industries filed a lawsuit challenging the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions under the U.S. Clean Air Act.

Oregon and 12 other states intervened Thursday on behalf of the EPA’s position.

Posted on July 28, 2010 · in USA

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