EPA Grants Petition to Reconsider Bush Memo On Coal Plant Emissions

This morning EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson granted a petition from the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund to reconsider a midnight memo by the former EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson which sought to prohibit regulation of carbon emissions from coal plants. In a letter to the petitioners, Jackson said the EPA would seek public comments on the decision soon. Today's decision is consistent with an earlier ruling by the EPA Environmental Appeals Board, which found there was no reason for the Bush administration to refuse to limit carbon emissions from new coal plants. Read the Sierra Club press release