Energy July 14, 2021
July 6, 2021
via: https://www.regulations.govDocket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0044; Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Establishing the Allowance Allocation and Trading Program Under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act; Proposed Rule 86 FR 27,150 (May 19, 2021)
Comments Submitted by Ben Lieberman, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), on Behalf of CEI, Consumers’ Research, Caesar Rodney Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Center for the American Experiment, Rio Grande Foundation, Americans for Limited Government, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, 60 Plus Association, FreedomWorks Foundation, Buckeye Institute, John Locke Foundation, Project 21, Independent Women’s Forum, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, Roughrider Policy Center, and Texas Public Policy Foundation.
The call for reform comes in the form of formal comments submitted on EPA’s proposed phaseout regulations.
A group of 17 leading free market advocacy organizations is telling EPA to rethink and repropose its faulty phaseout rules for HFCs. These rules were recently proposed under the so-called American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act passed in December. EPA is rushing the rule making, with final rules due out in September.
The call for reform comes in the form of formal comments submitted on EPA’s proposed phaseout regulations. The lead author of the comments is Ben Lieberman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Our own CFACT is also a member of the group of 17.
“MBIE’s preferred option in the Regulatory Impact Analysis we have prepared is to strengthen existing mechanisms in the employment relations system, combined with setting targeted sector based minimum standards where there are problematic outcomes for employees,” the paper, released on Thursday, said. The officials note a number of “significant risks” with the plan, most notably that employers were against it, the law would be “complex novel and lacks specific international precedent” and that it could breach international labour or human rights laws. “The compulsory nature of FPA bargaining and the bar on industrial action may not comply with New Zealand’s international labour obligations and a rights analysis is needed,” the officials wrote.
On May 19, 2021, the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published in the Federal Official Gazette1 the "Decree amending the thirteenth transitory article of the Hydrocarbons.
Businesses are encouraged to provide input on EPA’s HFC allowance allocation process during the forthcoming public comment period. To achieve the objectives of the.