Markey: New Bush Power Plant Rule Latest Loophole in Last Minute Rulemakings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE
Contact: Select Committee, 202-225-4081
WASHINGTON (January 12, 2009) – Today the Bush administration’s Environmental Protection Agency released a new power plant pollution rule under the New Source Review program which could prove to be yet another in a long line of loopholes given to energy industries. This new revision of the NSR program, which regulates whether power plants should be required to install new pollution controls when they upgrade their facilities, changes EPA's aggregation policy – aggregating emissions from multiple projects when considering whether the changes should trigger NSR action.
Below is the statement of Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the Clean Air Act:
“With eight days to go before leaving office, the Bush administration today finalized yet another midnight rulemaking that will harm public health and our planet. By allowing industrial facilities to artificially avoid triggering New Source Review requirements for pollution controls, the Bush administration has today created a loophole the size of a smokestack.”
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