AG doesn't want EPA regulating greenhouse gases

Alabama has joined Texas, Virginia and many industries in fighting an EPA ruling that says greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health. According to a report in the Montgomery Advertiser, Alabama Attorney General Troy King has joined a petition filed in federal appeals court protesting the EPA’s decision.

The petition seeks to block EPA from beginning regulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gasses, which are thought by many scientists to contribute to climate change. The EPA plans to begin implementing regulations in 2011. Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper Michael W. Mullen, in a letter also published in the Advertiser, called the petition “a waste of public resources,” and said it “will only serve to hold our state and our country back at a time when we desperately need to be moving forward.” He also called the petition “frivolous.”

The National Association of Manufacturers, together with the American Petroleum Institute, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, the National Association of Home Builders, the Corn Refiners Association, the Brick Industry Association, the Western States Petroleum Association and the National Oilseed Processors Association, filed their petition challenging the EPA’s endangerment finding on February 16.