A major utility is considering asking the Obama administration to invoke a rarely used statutory tool that grants companies more time to comply with clean-air rules if the country’s national security is at risk. (…) A rarely — if ever — used provision in the Clean Air Act would allow President Obama to issue an executive order that exempts a company from any EPA rule for at least two years “if the President determines that the technology to implement such standard is not available and that it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so,” as the law states. This provision also states that the exemption “may be extended for 1 or more additional periods.” Read on at:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/energy-week-2012/utility-eyes-security-exemption-for-epa-rule-20120312
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/energy-week-2012/utility-eyes-security-exemption-for-epa-rule-20120312
