At this morning?s Environmental Management Commission
(EMC) meeting, the commission decided that it would postpone any ruling
on whether or not to add greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the Annual
Emissions Reporting rule, which would require emissions of CO2 and
other GHGs to be reported to and recorded by the state, until its next
meeting in May.
This decision was allegedly made in lieu of a recent 1,400 page proposal by the EPA
of ?a rule that requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions from large sources in the United States,? and the fact that
the commission members needed time to analyze just exactly what the EPA
has said concerning the possibility of national reporting.
However, it also might because there is a great deal on contention
about whether or not the EMC has statuatory authority to even rule on
this issue, as Daren Bakst notes in his most recent spotlight.
This delay is great news, especially when you have an all time high of 41% of people saying that “seriousness of global warming” is exaggerated, according to a new Gallup poll.
