AISI Files Legal Challenge to EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
On February 16, AISI filed a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent ruling that will result in greenhouse gas emissions being regulated under the Clean Air Act. The AISI filing is a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It challenges the so-called “Endangerment Finding,” which EPA is using as the basis for its proposed regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. AISI’s filing challenges the Endangerment Finding on the grounds that EPA’s analysis of the evidence before it and its process for reaching its findings was fundamentally inadequate.
AISI firmly believes in the importance of lowering CO2 emissions globally and doing so without decreasing international competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers. EPA regulation of GHG’s under the Clean Air Act does not take into account the global nature of the climate change issue and does not account for the unilateral impact its actions will have on energy intensive industries that manufacture globally traded goods, such as steel. It will allow international competitors to increase their emissions and raise costs for the domestic industry, preventing companies from recovering and expanding their production into the future.
On February 16, AISI filed a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent ruling that will result in greenhouse gas emissions being regulated under the Clean Air Act. The AISI filing is a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It challenges the so-called “Endangerment Finding,” which EPA is using as the basis for its proposed regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. AISI’s filing challenges the Endangerment Finding on the grounds that EPA’s analysis of the evidence before it and its process for reaching its findings was fundamentally inadequate.
AISI firmly believes in the importance of lowering CO2 emissions globally and doing so without decreasing international competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers. EPA regulation of GHG’s under the Clean Air Act does not take into account the global nature of the climate change issue and does not account for the unilateral impact its actions will have on energy intensive industries that manufacture globally traded goods, such as steel. It will allow international competitors to increase their emissions and raise costs for the domestic industry, preventing companies from recovering and expanding their production into the future.
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