EPA seizes permit power from Texas on greenhouse gas emissions

DAVE MICHAELS
The Dallas Morning News
December 24, 2010

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WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it will seize authority from Texas to regulate major emitters of greenhouse gases because Gov. Rick Perry and state regulators refused to implement the rules.

The move caps a long dispute between Texas and the EPA, which have clashed over the Obama administration’s push to regulate industrial sources of carbon dioxide emissions.

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State officials complain the rules will unfairly punish Texas and its energy-hungry industries when they take effect Jan. 2.

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This article was posted: Friday, December 24, 2010 at 4:53 pm

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