Clean Air: House Panel Questions Coal-Plant Permit
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson faced tough questioning Nov. 8 at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) criticized a recent EPA decision to grant a permit to a Utah coal-fired powerplant without considering its potential impact on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Waxman claimed EPA had failed to act responsibly in light of the recent Supreme Court Massachusetts. EPA decision, which gave the agency the authority to regulate CO2 as a pollutant.