EPA left to pick up climate change where Congress dropped the debate

EPA left to pick up climate change where Congress dropped the debate:

By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

"Starting in January, under EPA rules new permits will require the largest factories and power plants to show they have installed the 'best available' technology to curb emissions. Smaller sources of greenhouse gases like shops, apartment buildings and bakeries are exempt.

That might mean upgrades to make plants burn fuel more efficiently or perhaps to switch from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas."