"Report: All States but Texas on Track to Issue Greenhouse Gas Permits"

"With state regulators required to start issuing Clean Air Act permits next year for large stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the Lone Star State will be the lone holdout, according to a report released today by an association of state and local air agencies.

The states are scrambling to align their own rules with U.S. EPA's new regulations, which are set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2011.

Thirty-six states have already gotten federal approval to begin issuing greenhouse gas permits. Of the remaining states, which have been required to explain their plans to EPA, Texas is the only one that won't revise its rules or accept a federal implementation plan, according to the analysis (pdf) by the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA)."

The New York Times had the story October 28, 2010.

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