A House committee is raising concerns about international emissions standards — and requesting that EPA take stock of how those criteria are affecting American regulations.
Republican leaders on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee wrote to EPA on Friday to request a briefing on the extent to which global environmental frameworks are affecting the United States.
Chair Brian Babin (R-Texas) and Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee Chair Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) raised concerns about the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a global accounting standard that organizations can use to measure and report emissions. That protocol is not legally enforceable in the United States.
“The Committee identified a troubling pattern in which international protocols, though not legally binding under United States law, have been leveraged to shape private-sector standards and global market expectations in ways that impose significant compliance burdens on American industry, constrain commercial flexibility, and risk excluding U.S. firms from key international markets,” the two wrote in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
