Lawyer: IRA Will Not Strengthen EPA Case to Regulate GHGs
Lawyer says reports are ‘much ado about nothing’
Earlier this week we reported that the New York Times and others noted the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law amends the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). A lawyer replied:
“I read through the amendments and that is not what the amendments do. Instead, they provide money for this initiative. Undoubtedly, the Democrats wanted to include this verbiage to strengthen the case that Congress authorized EPA to regulate GHGs but in my view the effort will fall short because that is not what the amendments actually do. And in point of fact the amendments could not do that because regulatory type of mandates would have violated the Byrd Rule. Hence, much ado about nothing.”
