EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson blasted an effort in Congress to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
She said the effort would be an “enormous step backward for science” if successful.
Jackson defended EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. That “endangerment” finding requires EPA to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act, according to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and others in the Senate and House are seeking to stop EPA through the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to prevent federal rules from being implemented. The act has only been used once, when in the 1990s Congress blocked an ergonomics standard proposed by the Occupational Health & Safety Administration.
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