Comment on Tailoring Rule, Marlo Lewis, Competitive Enterprise Institute, PDF Copy

December 28, 2009 EPA Docket Center Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0517 By electronic delivery to: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov Re: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule Contact Information ame: Marlo Lewis, Ph.D. Organization: Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Mailing Address: 1899 L Street, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-669-6693 E#mail: mlewis@cei.org The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit free-market public policy group specializing in regulatory issues, is pleased to submit this comment on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V 1Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule. Abstract: In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court legislated from the bench, authorizing and indeed pushing EPA to control emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) for climate change purposes. This is a policy decision of immense economic and political magnitude that Congress never intended or approved when it enacted and amended the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act). Regulating GHGs under the CAA leads inexorably to "absurd results," including an 1 EPA, Prevention of Significant Deterioration anitdle TV Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule; Proposed Ru lOec,tober 27, 2009, 74 FR, 55292-55365; hereafter citeidlo rains gT aRule. 2 ...