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It will be the start of a new legislative push tomorrow as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds its first big hearing on global warming following passage of the House bill last month. There is an interesting wrinkle I do want to call to your attention. One of the witnesses called by the Senate Republicans is Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. You may recall that as a lobbyist for Southern Company in 2001, he persuaded the Bush administration to renege on a campaign promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants. Talk about a guy with juice!

AARP Consumer Federation of America National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of its low-income clients Public Citizen Chesapeake Climate Action Network Essential Consumer Protections: Critical Improvements to the House Climate Change Bill July 22, 2009 Dear Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: We appreciate your leadership on protecting residential consumers in the drafting of climate change legislation. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important challenge and an opportunity that will transform many aspects of everyday life for the average consumer.

The Warrenville, Ill.-based manufacturer has asked a federal appeals court to review EPA’s certification requirements for SCR engines and whether the agency must go through the lengthy process of amending its 2001 rule setting emissions limits for diesel engines before it certifies engines using SCR. Navistar is the only North American truck manufacturer that is not using SCR to meet the new standard of 0.2 grams of NOx per brake-horsepower hour and has publicly called for a softening of the looming deadline to allow fleets to purchase 2007-compliant technology after Jan. 1, 2010.

You’d think business groups might be happy at the prospect that the US EPA wants to streamline information gathering about industrial toxic pollution. Then why did a collection of industry groups – including chemical, oil and pharmaceutical – visit the White House the other day to raise holy heck? Based on the materials they left behind (the information is all at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/oira/2060/meetings/635.html ), they still think EPA wants too much information.

..overall CASAC finds that the Policy Assessment provides relevant scientific information needed for consideration in revising the secondary NAAQS for oxides of nitrogen and sulfur.

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