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Climate Progress: EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to Americans’ health and welfare requiring regulation
The Energy Collective: EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to Americans’ health and welfare requiring regulation
Worldchanging: Bright Green: EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to Americans’ health and welfare requiring regulation
EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to Americans’ health and welfare requiring regulation
Climate Progress —
... BACKGROUND AND IMPLICATIONS
On April 2, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were pollutants and that the EPA would have to regulate them if they were found to endanger public health and welfare. Last month, EPA made its landmark finding: Global warming threatens public health and welfare. Today, following White House approval, the EPA made it official.
As Wonk Room notes, “Welfare” is defined in the Clean Air Act as:
All language referring to ...
EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to Americans’ health and welfare requiring regulation
The Energy Collective —
... BACKGROUND AND IMPLICATIONS
On April 2, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were pollutants and that the EPA would have to regulate them if they were found to endanger public health and welfare. Last month, EPA made its landmark finding: Global warming threatens public health and welfare. Today, following White House approval, the EPA made it official.
As Wonk Room notes, “Welfare” is defined in the Clean Air Act as:
All language ...
EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to Americans’ health and welfare requiring regulation
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... . Today, following White House approval, the EPA made it official. As Wonk Room notes , “Welfare” is defined in the Clean Air Act as: All language referring to effects on welfare includes, but is not limited to, effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, manmade materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate, damage to and deterioration of property, and hazards to transportation, as well as effects on economic values and on personal comfort and well-being , whether caused by transformation, conversion, or combination with other pollutants. So for a ...
Contempt of Congress: House GOP reveals disdain for clean energy, livable climate with 450 planned amendments to Waxman-Markey and a more-of-the-same rehash of Cheney energy plan
Climate Progress —
... and trade plan” that sets economy-wide standards for global warming pollution.
In reality, it’s hardly a viable alternative — only something that can be presented as one. This is basically a PR stunt aimed at conning the public to stay stuck in the same dirty energy rut that is destroying our economy and environment.
The Barton plan summary I’ve reviewed includes such choice items as:
– Repealing the Supreme Court decision which said the US EPA could limit greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
– Preempting state ...
US Chamber of Commerce calls for ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ on climate change
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... ” — wants to put climate science on trial. As the Environmental Protection Agency nears a final ruling that manmade global warming endangers the public health and welfare, “the chamber will tell the EPA in a filing today that a trial-style public hearing” on the science of climate change is needed to “make a fully informed, transparent decision with scientific integrity based on the actual record of the science.” William Kovacs, the chamber’s senior vice president for environment, technology and regulatory affairs, told the Los Angeles ...
