This is a pretty solid win. Im often bitching about the various parties using end arounds to defeat the legal process and get what they want without actually voting on it.. well this was an Obama Administration plan to use the existing air rules to regulate CO 2 emissions rather than get a CO2 law passed
The dems theory was that the Nox and So2 regulations require O2 or CO 2 to be monitored or estimated… this is so you can mathematically convert the concentrations into rates, which are easier to compare and regulate… it also keeps companies from just installing fans to increase O2 and dilute the pollution at the monitors, because it corrects for that in the stoichiometric math. (If you know Co2, you can correctly calculate O2 and in some processes, thats easier to monitor)
There are no set limits for Co2… its just there to calculate out the regulated pollutants… its deemed a “ diluent” for regulatory purposes… yet the OA decided that because it was mentioned in cfr 40 pt 60 and 75, they could regulate it without a new act of congress.
Today the Supreme Court correctly ruled that federal agencies do not have the right to operate outside of tge direction of congress.
The dems theory was that the Nox and So2 regulations require O2 or CO 2 to be monitored or estimated… this is so you can mathematically convert the concentrations into rates, which are easier to compare and regulate… it also keeps companies from just installing fans to increase O2 and dilute the pollution at the monitors, because it corrects for that in the stoichiometric math. (If you know Co2, you can correctly calculate O2 and in some processes, thats easier to monitor)
There are no set limits for Co2… its just there to calculate out the regulated pollutants… its deemed a “ diluent” for regulatory purposes… yet the OA decided that because it was mentioned in cfr 40 pt 60 and 75, they could regulate it without a new act of congress.
Today the Supreme Court correctly ruled that federal agencies do not have the right to operate outside of tge direction of congress.
