NEW YORK—The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said federal clean air laws are the "wrong tool" to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and that Congress should enact laws to tackle climate change.
The EPA has been under pressure to take steps to regulate greenhouse gases since a landmark 2007 Supreme Court decision that it must reconsider its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new cars and trucks.
"The Clean Air Act is ill suited and the wrong tool, therefore I believe this should be the responsibility of Congress," EPA administrator Stephen Johnson told reporters in a teleconference.
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