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David Doniger: Terms of Endangerment: EPA to Cut Global Warming Pollution

 

Published 4/18/2009 by David Doniger at Green on HuffingtonPost.com

At long last, the Environmental Protection Agency today officially recognized that the carbon pollution from our cars and power plants leads to killer heat waves, stronger hurricanes, higher smog levels, and many other direct and indirect threats to human health.  With this step, the Obama administration has gone a long way to restore respect for both science and law. The era of defying science and the Supreme Court has ended.  SPECIAL LIVE CHAT: Join NRDC's David Doniger for a live online discussion about the EPA's endangerment determination on Monday, April 20, at 1 p.m. on NRDC's Switchboard blog . You can also participate via Twitter using the tag #greenchat. Administrator Lisa Jackson issued an "endangerment determination" under the Clean Air Act -- a finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping air pollutants "may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" and that motor vehicle emissions of those pollutants "contribute" to that dangerous ... (link)

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