ASA Concerned About EPA’s Efforts to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
In response to the EPA’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gas
emissions, the American Soybean Association (ASA) expresses serious
concerns with any potential future effort by EPA to regulate
greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act that might follow this
endangerment finding.
ASA reiterates its strong concern and opposition to any regulatory
or legislative effort that unilaterally imposes greenhouse gas
emissions caps on U.S. businesses, manufacturers, and consumers. To
maintain U.S. competitiveness, implementation of climate change
regulations or legislation should be contingent on Senate ratification
of an international commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that
includes all major world economies and our foreign competitors.
Safeguards also are needed to ensure that U.S. jobs and
competitiveness aren’t sacrificed or exported in unilateral attempts
to address climate change.
As EPA itself has acknowledged, regulation of greenhouse gas
emissions through the Clean Air Act is not advisable and strong
consideration must be given to the broad impacts that any climate
change regulatory or legislative action would have on our economic,
energy, and food security.
