EPA may seek new comment on California waiver this week - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

EPA may seek new comment on California waiver this week
Tue Feb 3, 2009 9:33pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Environmental
Protection Agency said on Tuesday she hopes to reopen the
public comment period this week on California's request
for authority to cut tailpipe emissions.

"I think very soon. ... I'm hoping that it will be in the
next few days," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told Reuters
when asked if notice would be published this week in the
Federal Register of regulations.

Jackson spoke to Reuters after visiting the Washington
Auto Show.

President Barack Obama last week ordered the EPA to
reconsider California's request for a waiver from federal
regulations to impose its own strict limits on vehicle
carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for contributing to global
warming.

The Bush administration had rejected the state's proposal.

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