EPA Administrator Stalling on Action to Regulate CO2

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson is stalling on setting a timetable for his agency's response to the April 2 Supreme Court ruling that the EPA should be regulating carbon dioxide. Senators repeatedly pressed him for a date for compliance, such as four months (suggested by Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.), but Johnson refused to be rushed. "I'm not going to be forced into making a snap decision," he told reporters. The Washington Post reporting on Johnson's appearance before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, quoted Johnson as stating that he doesn't see one environmental issue as more pressing than any other. The court decision focused on emissions from automobiles, but the delay is apparently because the agency is assessing the impact the ruling may have on regulating emissions from power plants and other industrial sources.
"We will move expeditiously, but we are going to be moving responsibly," Johnson said.