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SW: →March 2010: EPA Waits for 2013 to regulate carbon emissions from 50,000 to 75,000 tons a year: - add section
Senator [[John D. Rockefeller IV]] (D) of West Virginia on March 4, 2010 introduced legislation that would delay the EPA's carbon rules. The bill calls for a "two-year suspension" that will give Congress “the time it needs to address an issue as complicated and expansive as our energy future." Two House Democrats, West Virginia’s [[Nick Rahall]] and Virginia’s [[Rick Boucher]], also introduced legislation that would put EPA's greenhouse gas regulations for so-called “stationary sources” on hold for two years. Rep. Rahall was co-author of the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House in June 2009 and would replace EPA direct regulation on carbon emissions.<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-04/rockefeller-introduces-bill-to-delay-epa-carbon-rules-update1-.html "Rockefeller Introduces Bill to Delay EPA Carbon Rules"] Simon Lomax, Bloomberg March 5, 2010.</ref>
====Fossil fuel companies fight public release of facility GHG emissions====
In October 2010, oil producers and refiners, energy companies, and product manufacturers announced their opposition to a proposal by the EPA that would make the amount of [[greenhouse gas]] emissions companies release — and the underlying data businesses use to calculate the amounts — available online. While gross estimates exist for such emissions from transportation and electricity production and manufacturing as a whole, the EPA is requiring companies for the first time to submit information for each individual facility. The companies say that disclosing details beyond a facility's total emissions to the public would reveal company secrets by letting competitors know what happens inside their factories. Suppliers of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), which when burned release greenhouse gases, plus manufacturers of engines and vehicles, and facilities that release 25,000 tons or more of any of six heat-trapping [[greenhouse gases]], would all have to comply with the regulation, the first by the government on pollution linked to [[global warming]].<ref>Brian Merchant, [http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/corporations-fight-epa-emissions-data-secret.php "Corporations Fight EPA to Keep Emissions Data Secret"] TreeHugger, Oct. 29, 2010.</ref>
==EPA animal testing requirements==
