U.S. Chamber Challenges EPA Endangerment Finding in Court

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has challenged EPA's December decision to regulate GHGs on the grounds that such regulation would harm the economy by hindering production and manufacturing costs and forcing the development of other regulations that would impact industry, Dow Jones Newswires reported.

Steven Law, chief legal officer and general counsel at the Chamber, was quoted as saying: "The Chamber's legal challenge will focus specifically on the inadequacies of the process that EPA followed in triggering Clean Air Act regulation. This is an issue that requires careful analysis of all available data and options. Unfortunately, the agency failed to do that and instead overreached (and) the result is a flawed administrative finding that will lead to other poorly conceived regulations further downstream."

The Los Angeles Times quoted an EPA spokeswoman as saying: "EPA issued its endangerment finding as a result of a 2007 Supreme Court decision and after a thorough and transparent review of the soundest science available." The Chamber's petition for review was filed last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, Bloomberg reported. The group said it supported regulation of GHGs through bipartisan legislation.

- Related story also appeared in The Hill.