The American Petroleum Institute supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to repeal the foundation of greenhouse gas regulations for vehicles but not for power plants and other stationary industrial facilities, its president said on Monday.
“We would not support repealing the endangerment finding for stationary sources,” API President Mike Sommers told reporters, adding that the trade group believes it has “the greatest standing” from a regulatory perspective and it is clear the EPA has authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from those sources.
The EPA plans to finalize its proposal to repeal its scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health, called the endangerment finding. Such a move would remove within days the legal foundation that underpins all major climate regulations.
Reversal of the “endangerment finding” would gut one of the most consequential federal standards that had enabled the U.S. to tackle climate change by regulating vehicles, industries, and energy-producing facilities that emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Environmental groups have said that the scientific finding made in 2009 is even less in dispute today and should be left intact, with vehicle emission rules Washington’s biggest tool to combat climate change.
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