Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin
Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky and Tomás
Carbonell
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Commentary
President Obama left China with a raft of agreements for
cooperation on clean energy . . . After a meeting with the chairmen
of committees of jurisdiction, Majority Leader Reid made it
official: the Senate will not vote on climate legislation until
Spring . . . With the further slide of the legislative timetable,
the bite of Clean Air Act regulation could become more pronounced.
Within industry, the disruption that will be caused by the EPA
regulatory program – even with the "tailoring
rule" – is slowly sinking in. Major infrastructure
activities, in particular, could slow substantially or grind to a
halt as companies have to queue up with delegated state agencies to
obtain permits and install currently unknown "Best Available
Control Technology." . .
