Stephen Powers and Ian Talley report in today’s Wall Street Journal - “A growing number of state regulators are urging the Obama administration to slow the rollout of proposed federal rules curbing industrial greenhouse-gas emissions, saying the administration’s approach could overwhelm them with paperwork, delay construction projects and undercut their own efforts to fight climate change.

Some state regulators are calling on the EPA to go slowly with its new emissions rules. Above, the Pittsburg power plant in Pittsburg, Calif.
The concerns echo some criticisms that business groups — including the American Petroleum Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers — have voiced about the potential consequence of new regulations, though the states generally don’t challenge the legality of the proposed regulations, as some business groups have. Indeed, many state regulators continue to say they support the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to regulate greenhouse gases. Their concerns, they say, have more to do with how quickly such rules should be phased in, and how to pay for an expansion in regulatory oversight at a time when their budgets are in the red.

Regulators from around the U.S., including Kansas, Pennsylvania, Florida and California, are calling on the EPA to go slowly with its new rules, and in some cases warning that they lack funding to regulate some of the new emissions sources that would be covered.”

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