EPA provides details on greenhouse gas regulation

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson provided a timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions Monday, writing in a letter to lawmakers that she plans to start targeting large facilities such as power plants next year but won't target small emitters before 2016.

The letter makes it clear the Obama administration will move ahead with curbing global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act unless Congress takes action to stop it. Jackson emphasized that the administration was required to act under a 2007 Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts vs. EPA, that said greenhouse gases from motor vehicles qualified as a pollutant under the 40-year-old air-quality law.

Jackson wrote: "I share your goals of ensuring economic recovery at this critical time and of addressing greenhouse-gas emissions in sensible ways that are consistent with the call for comprehensive energy and climate legislation."

Read the full story, including a link to the letter, in The Washington Post.