Oregon has joined four other states and environmental groups to sue the federal government, claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency has ignored its duty to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from ships, aircraft, agricultural machines and construction equipment.
The notice to the EPA was announced Thursday in Coburg.
“These are large important sectors of greenhouse gas emissions from the United States,” said Dan Galpern, an attorney with the Eugene-based Western Environmental Law Center, one of the groups petitioning the EPA. “And they are emissions that can be controlled and as yet are entirely unregulated by EPA.”
Galpern said these non-road sources of pollution make up 12 percent of all mobile greenhouse-gas emissions. They make up slightly more than 3 percent of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
