From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:
Pennsylvania has withdrawn from five federal environmental lawsuits in which the Rendell administration had intervened in support of health protective regulations of greenhouse gas emissions and ground-level ozone, the primary component of smog.
The state’s decision to end its participation in the federal cases again has raised concerns from local, state and national environmental organizations that Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration is charting a different course on regulation of fossil fuel energy and its air pollution emissions than did the previous Democratic administration.
According to federal court records, the state Aug. 5 withdrew from four cases it joined in 2010 in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment” rule. That ruling found that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollutants that contribute to climate change also jeopardize human health and should be regulated by limiting emissions from vehicles, power plants and other large stationary sources…
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