States, environmental groups ask EPA to impose emission standards
Connecticut, California, Oregon, New Jersey and Pennsylvania plan to file a petition today asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop emission standards for construction and farm machinery, logging equipment, outdoor power equipment, recreational vehicles and lawn and garden equipment.
Off-road vehicles were responsible for about 220 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2007, or roughly the same amount of emissions produced by 40 millions cars, according to California Attorney General Jerry Brown.
The EPA also is reviewing other requests filed last year by the same groups to regulate emissions from cargo ships, cruise liners and aircraft.
The Western Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit Eugene, Ore., public interest law firm plans to file a similar petition Tuesday on behalf of the International Center for Technology Assessment, the Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth.
Representatives of the environmental groups and the states scheduled a news conference Tuesday in Los Angeles to announce their request.
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