California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

Late last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency laid the foundation for assuming breathtaking power to issue command-and-control dictates for the American economy.

The agency ruled that “greenhouse gas” emissions endanger public health and welfare because of their alleged impacts on climate change or global warming, and that EPA has Clean Air Act authority to regulate their output.

On February 5th PLF filled the challenge, on PLF’s website, watch attorney Ted Hadzi-Antich explain why the process that led to EPA’s ruling has been called into question and why PLF is petitioning for it to be revisited and reviewed.

Through its greenhouse gas “endangerment finding,” the EPA bureaucracy has set itself up as the potential overseer for all economic activity that relies on fossil fuels – from agriculture to energy development to transportation, manufacturing, and industrial production.

PLF now is challenging this EPA ruling. In an administrative petition to the agency, PLF argues that the process that yielded the endangerment finding has been called into question by what is popularly known as “Climategate.” Therefore, EPA’s own rules require reassessment by the agency’s Scientific Advisory Board.
Significant revelations suggest that the scientific data used to arrive at the endangerment finding may be unreliable. For this reason, as PLF’s petition argues, a formal reconsideration of the endangerment finding must be undertaken