加州总检察长 Bonta 联合27个州县市反对环保署撤销电厂温室气体危害认定
加州总检察长 Rob Bonta 11月2日在 Oakland 宣布，他已联合一个由27个州、县和市组成的联盟，反对美国环境保护署（EPA）的一项补充提案：撤销该署2015年作出的认定，即化石燃料电厂的温室气体排放推动气候变化并危害公众健康与福祉。
2015年的这项认定被称为电厂「危害认定」（Endangerment Finding），它确认化石燃料电厂的温室气体排放显著助长正在改变气候的污染，并触发了环保署为这些排放设定限值的职责。环保署去年曾以不同理由提议撤销该认定，同时提议废除拜登政府时期针对部分化石燃料电厂的温室气体排放标准。环保署后来正式废除了拜登时期的排放标准，但没有正式撤销危害认定，而是借用其今年2月已正式撤销机动车危害认定时所用的论点，对撤销提案作了补充。
加州总检察长办公室表示，如果环保署正式通过这项补充提案，就等于放弃《清洁空气法》第111条——这正是美国最高法院在「马萨诸塞州诉环保署案」（Massachusetts v. EPA）中确认的、直接针对这类排放的法定工具——并将阻止联邦政府未来对化石燃料电厂温室气体排放的监管。Bonta 与联盟敦促环保署撤回拟议规则，保留运用《清洁空气法》限制电厂温室气体排放的能力。
Bonta 说：「总统不能继续把头埋进沙子里、无视事实。气候变化是真实的，它由温室气体排放造成，数十年确立的科学早已警告这一天的到来。这项提案是对科学、法律和常识的危险倒退。」他说，环保署撤销电厂危害认定的计划「把特朗普的大石油朋友置于美国人民之前，而美国人民已经在承受毁灭性山火、酷热和严重洪水的影响」，这正是联盟反对该拟议规则、敦促环保署撤回的原因。
据加州总检察长办公室介绍，美国化石燃料电厂是全球气候污染的最大来源之一——如果把这些电厂看作一个国家，其排放量将居全球第六。电力行业是美国最大的固定排放源、第二大温室气体排放源，占全美排放总量的四分之一。若不控制该行业的温室气体排放，加州面临的威胁将加剧，包括更强更频繁的热浪、山火、严重风暴、洪水、疾病、空气污染和区域生态系统损害。去年，加州历史上最具破坏性的两场大火——洛杉矶县的 Palisades 大火和 Eaton 大火——造成至少30人死亡，摧毁16,000多座住宅和其他建筑，烧毁面积超过37,000英亩。
在当天的意见信中，Bonta 与联盟提出三点主张：第一，《清洁空气法》指示环保署依据第111条监管化石燃料电厂的温室气体排放，美国最高法院和哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院都按这一明确含义解释第111条，环保署不能改写《清洁空气法》或推翻最高法院，其包括援引「重大问题原则」在内的论点均不成立；第二，以「徒劳」为由不监管电厂温室气体排放并不可取，尤其是美国电力行业的温室气体排放居全球第六；第三，环保署的补充提案武断且反复无常，因为它没有充分解释立场转变、没有考虑严重的信赖利益、没有量化或货币化温室气体、臭氧和颗粒物的影响，也没有考虑提案对电网可靠性和电价负担的影响。
与 Bonta 共同提交意见信的包括纽约州、亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、康涅狄格州、特拉华州、夏威夷州、伊利诺伊州、缅因州、马里兰州、马萨诸塞州、密歇根州、明尼苏达州、新泽西州、新墨西哥州、北卡罗来纳州、俄勒冈州、罗得岛州、佛蒙特州、弗吉尼亚州、华盛顿州和威斯康星州的总检察长，以及华盛顿特区总检察长，还有 Chicago 市、Denver 市和县、New York 市的首席法律官员和湾区空气质量管理局。
（来源：加利福尼亚州总检察长办公室）
California Attorney General Bonta Joins 27 States, Counties and Cities Opposing EPA Bid to Rescind Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced in Oakland on November 2 that he has joined a coalition of 27 states, counties, and cities in opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) supplemental proposal to rescind its 2015 finding that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel power plants drive climate change and endanger public health and welfare, a move that would eliminate and prevent regulation of these emissions.
The 2015 finding, known as the Endangerment Finding for power plants, acknowledged that fossil fuel power plant GHG emissions significantly contribute to the pollution that is changing the climate and triggered EPA's duty to set limits on those emissions. EPA proposed rescinding the finding on different grounds last year, at the same time it proposed repealing the Biden Administration's GHG emissions standards for certain fossil fuel-fired power plants. Although EPA finalized the repeal of the Biden-era emissions standards, it did not finalize its proposed rescission of the Endangerment Finding, instead supplementing its proposal with arguments borrowed from EPA's rescission of the Endangerment Finding for motor vehicles, finalized in February 2026.
According to the Attorney General's office, if EPA finalizes the supplemental proposal, it will effectively abandon Section 111 of the Clean Air Act — the statutory tool that speaks directly to those emissions, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA — and preclude future federal regulation of fossil fuel power plant GHG emissions. Bonta and the coalition urge EPA to withdraw the proposed rule and preserve its ability to use the Clean Air Act to limit power plant greenhouse gas emissions.
"The President can't keep burying his head in the sand and ignoring the truth. Climate change is real, it's caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and decades of settled science warned us this was coming. This proposal is a dangerous retreat from science, the law, and common sense," said Attorney General Bonta. "EPA's plan to rescind the Endangerment Finding for power plants puts Trump's Big Oil friends before the American people, who are already dealing with the impacts of destructive wildfires, scorching heat, and severe floods. That's why we're opposing this proposed rule and urging EPA to withdraw it."
Fossil fuel-fired power plants in the United States are one of the largest contributors to climate pollution in the world — if these power plants were a country, they would be the sixth-highest emitter on the planet, the office said. The power sector is the largest stationary source and second-largest overall source of GHG emissions in the United States, accounting for a quarter of all domestic emissions. Last year, two of the most destructive fires in state history — the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, both in Los Angeles County — killed at least 30 people, destroyed over 16,000 homes and other structures, and damaged over 37,000 acres.
In the comment letter, the coalition asserts that the Clean Air Act directs EPA to regulate GHG emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants under Section 111 and that EPA cannot rewrite the Clean Air Act or overrule the U.S. Supreme Court; that futility is an impermissible reason not to regulate, particularly given that U.S. power sector emissions are the sixth largest source of GHG emissions in the world; and that the supplemental proposal is arbitrary and capricious because EPA failed to adequately explain its change in position or consider serious reliance interests, failed to quantify or monetize GHG, ozone, and particulate matter impacts, and failed to consider impacts on grid reliability or electricity affordability.
In submitting the comment letter, Bonta joins the attorneys general of New York, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, along with the Chief Legal Officers of the City of Chicago, the City and County of Denver, the City of New York, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
(Source: California Attorney General's Office)
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