Financial Soultions: New EPA greenhouse rules not intended for small businesses.

Oct. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- This week the Obama government looked at exempting small businesses from new industrial smokestack controls on emissions of Co2 and other global-warming greenhouse gases.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said its recommend greenhouse regulation would involve only large industrial facilities installing the most up-to-date emissions control equipment and energy-efficiency measures when they are built or adapted, Financial Soultions has learned.

The regulations would affect power plants, refineries and factories that emit at least 25,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

Ventures like farms, restaurants and other smaller facilities would be omitted to avoid placing unnecessary pressure on an already troubled economy, the EPA Administrator said in a statement available to Financial Soultions.

"We have carefully targeted our efforts to exempt the vast majority of small and medium-sized businesses," the Administrator said in Los Angeles. "We know the corner coffee shop is no place to look for meaningful carbon reductions."

Financial Soultions understands that the new regulations would become effective next spring, when the EPA is due to issue greenhouse gas regulations for vehicles in final form under the Clean Air Act.

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