EPA Completes Draft ‘Greenhouse’ Regs

The Environmental Protection Agency has completed its draft of new regulations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks, Bloomberg reported.

EPA needs to publish the proposed rules for public comment to meet President Bush’s goal of completing them before the end of 2008, Margo Oge, director of EPA’s transportation and air quality office said, Bloomberg reported late Tuesday.

Oge did not discuss the scope of the limits that will be proposed or when they would be announced, telling Bloomberg that they were “significant” regulations.

She was speaking at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where she announced EPA’s participation in an award to encourage automakers to use “green” technologies in racing competitions, Bloomberg reported.

California and 16 other states have filed suit against EPA, in an effort to write their own greenhouse gas rules, in lieu of federal regulations.

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