Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Regulating
Climate change regulatory initiative has shifted from Congress to the U.S. EPA, and metalcasting facilities are feeling the effects. SHANNON WETZEL, SENIOR EDITOR
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ne of President Obama’s goals when he was elected in 2008 was to establish comprehensive climate change legislation. How-
ever, after two years of failed attempts and a mid-term election that saw his party lose power in Congress, he announced he was abandoning efforts to establish climate change regulation though legislation. Jeet Radia, senior vice president
of McWane Inc., Birmingham, Ala., speculates that with cap and trade legislation abandoned in Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will carry the burden of regulating greenhouse gas. “I think the Obama administra-
tion knows this is the only way to regulation now,” Radia said. “They have two years for sure and maybe four years after that to make their progress, so they want to get as
much done in two years, at least.” In the Supreme Court case Massa-
chusetts vs. EPA, which was ruled on in April 2007, the court found EPA had the authority in existing legislation to regulate greenhouse gases from mobile sources if it determined the gases imposed a threat to public health. Fol- lowing the ruling, EPA issued a draft proposal finding the gases do endan- ger the public health, but the Bush Administration refused to acknowl-
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