Markey (D-Mass) Wants to Subpoena EPA for Climate-Change Documents

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Markey Wants to Subpoena EPA for Climate-Change Documents
By Avery Palmer, CQ Staff



Rep. Edward J. Markey is seeking to subpoena the EPA after the agency failed to turn over documents related to global warming.

Markey chairs the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which cannot take up legislation but does have subpoena power. The committee will vote on issuing the subpoena at an April 2 meeting.

Markey, D-Mass., wants the EPA to provide information about its delayed response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. In April 2007, the court ruled that carbon dioxide was a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and required the EPA to evaluate possible rules to control greenhouse gases.

While the court’s decision pertained to emissions from cars and trucks, an EPA decision to limit greenhouse gases could also have sweeping impact on other sectors of the economy.

The EPA had announced plans to respond to the court decision by the end of last year, but changed course after the president signed a new comprehensive energy law (PL 110-140). EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson said he needed time to review the law’s new mandates on fuel economy and biofuels, both of which indirectly affect greenhouse gas emissions.

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