Focus is on Climate, but Toxics, Security Issues Are Close Behind

Industry and environmental groups have their hands full with U.S. and international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but the year-end activity has offered up a formidable slate of non climate-related issues that could prove to be of more immediate concern. On the climate front, EPA has upped the ante by issuing its final “endangerment finding” rule, the first step in establishing a regulatory framework for GHG controls under existing Clean Air Act authority. EPA’s swift and apparently determined policy toward regulating GHGs, even without a...

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