Carlton Carroll | 202.682.8114 | carrollc@api.org
WASHINGTON, November 10, 2010 – API responded to the guidance issued today by the EPA on its Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for state and local permitting authorities as they implement the Clean Air Act permitting programs for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to API’s Director of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Howard Feldman:
“The EPA is railroading job killing regulations onto states, localities and America’s businesses, during a time of uncertain economic recovery, without giving those affected adequate time to review, provide comments, or even implement the new regulations. EPA’s regulations take effect January 2, 2011, but it’s already November and EPA is just now releasing guidance documents for permitting.
“There is consensus among many people, including President Obama, that EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act may not be the proper path forward for climate change policy. Many governors around the country have expressed alarm about the consequences of this regulation on the economy and jobs given the current economic environment.”
API represents more than 400 oil and natural gas companies, leaders of a technology-driven industry that supplies most of America's energy, supports more than 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.5 percent of the U.S. economy, and, since 2000, has invested nearly $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives, while reducing the industry's environmental footprint.
Updated: November 10, 2010