Roger Martella, EPA General Counsel in Bush Administration, Explains How EPA Regulation of Carbon Emissions May Be Close

Roger Martella, a partner at the Washington-based law firm Sidley Austin, recently discussed how the Obama Administration is moving ahead with a regulatory approach to reducing carbon emissions.

For those -- and there are a growing number -- who think that the U.S. Congress will not take action this year (or perhaps next year either) to address greenhouse gas emissions, the regulatory approach may be the path that the administration pursues. Of course, this has some important consequences not least of which is that a legislatively driven cap-and-trade scheme may not come to fruition.

Mr. Martella spoke to E&ETV's Monica Trauzii in mid-September ("Climate: Former EPA General Counsel Martella Discusses Agency's Push to Regulation Emissions," OnPoint, Sept. 17, 2009).