news.yahoo.com - 4/17/2009
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Associated Press: The EPA on Friday declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases sent off by cars and many industrial plants "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws. The action by the Environmental ...
yosemite.epa.gov - 4/17/2009
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yosemite.epa.gov —
Release date: 04/17/2009 Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn, 202-564-4355
/ 7849 / milbourn.cathy@epa.gov; En español: Lina Younes, 202-564-4355
/ younes.lina@epa.gov (Washington, D.C. – April 17, 2009) After a thorough scientific review ordered in ...
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04/17/2009: EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to ...
climateprogress.org - 4/18/2009
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climateprogress.org —
In a landmark finding for America and humanity,
the EPA “issued a proposed finding Friday that greenhouse
gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare.” The ruling sounds the death knell for new dirty coal ...
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EPA finds carbon pollution a serious danger to ...
yosemite.epa.gov - 4/17/2009
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yosemite.epa.gov —
Release date: 04/17/2009 Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn, 202-564-4355
/ 7849 / milbourn.cathy@epa.gov; En español: Lina Younes, 202-564-4355
/ younes.lina@epa.gov (Washington, D.C. – April 17, 2009) After a thorough scientific review ordered in ...
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04/17/2009: EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to ...
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EPA: Greenhouse Gases a Danger to Health
GoodCleanTech —
... The six gases in question are CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. The action by the EPA "marks the first step toward requiring power plants, cars and trucks to curtail their release of climate-changing pollution, especially carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels," according to the Associated Press. ...
Was an ‘Historic’ EPA Ruling on GHGsReflected by Historically Good Coverage?
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media —
... : “I believe that the right answer will come through legislation that focuses on green jobs, clean energy, and new technologies.” ‘Second-Day’ Coverage [image] Several stories on the announcement focused not so much on the historic nature of EPA’s decision but on what it would mean - impacts on climate legislation and, usually briefly, impacts on business. An Associated Press story , for instance, quoted Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, that the EPA finding was “a wake-up call to Congress.” The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin ...
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EPA Ruling and Where We are Headed —
The Oil Drum
Today's newspaper is full of stories about the yesterday's EPA ruling:
EPA paves way for broad emission limits
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday declared that industrial greenhouse gases are a danger to human health and well-being, opening the way to broad new regulations to ...
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green LA girl
>> The EPA finally officially said that greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health and welfare. According to Grist, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said this announcement will “trigger the beginnings of regulation of CO2 for this country.
>> Villaraigosa picked S. David Freeman as ...
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