White House Opposes Effort to Publish Plan on Greenhouse Gas Controls

The Bush administration is opposing the publication of a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency that shows how greenhouse gases can be regulated under existing federal laws, according to the Wall Street Journal. The EPA has drafted a document outlining how emissions from cars, trucks, trains, ships, planes, power plants, industries, and refineries could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. But the White House maintains that using the act to regulate greenhouse gases will create an intrusive and unwieldy bureaucracy that would hurt the economy. Instead, the Office of Management and Budget says new legislation should be passed to regulate greenhouse gases, a proposal that critics say only delays regulation of CO₂ and other heat-trapping gases.