By Eileen D. Millett (June 20, 2012)

The Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas regulatory scheme could be the most far-reaching regulatory program ever devised by a federal agency. Depending on the outcome of a case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, your local school, church, apartment building and corner restaurant, as well as cement manufacturers, coal-burning utilities, home builders, and construction companies, could come under EPA's permitting and recordkeeping requirements for greenhouse gas emissions (Coalition for Responsible Regulation vs. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 10-1092, oral arguments 2/29/12).