Posted on 12/05/2009 6:53:47 PM PST by Delacon
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the matter.
Such an "endangerment" decision is necessary for the EPA to move ahead early next year with new emission standards for cars. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said it could also mean large emitters such as power stations, cement kilns, crude-oil refineries and chemical plants would have to curb their greenhouse gas output.
The announcement would also give President Barack Obama and his climate envoy negotiating leverage at a global climate summit starting next week in Copenhagen, Denmark and increase pressure on Congress to pass a climate bill that would modify the price of polluting.
While environmentalists celebrate EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, it has caused many large emitters to cringe at the potential costs of compliance.
According to a preliminary endangerment finding published in April, EPA scientists fear that man-made carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are contributing to a warming of the global climate. Senior EPA officials said in November the agency would likely make a final decision in December around the time of the summit.
Joe Mendelson, Global Warming Policy Director for National Wildlife Federation, said the endangerment decision, would happen at "absolutely the right time."
"With House legislation passed, a bipartisan Senate bill in the works, and strong EPA action a virtual certainty, the president goes to Copenhagen with a very strong hand to play," Mr. Mendelson said.
The EPA declaration would also ratchet up the pressure on U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation that analysts say would cut emissions in a more economically efficient way. Although the House has passed a climate bill, movement of similar
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Oh, no! Not COWS!
This IS from the Onion, right??
Well screw the fascist EPA. Let the EPA send its divisions into the states and enforce its illegal dictates. ( I’m looking forward to that)
The EPA has zero - none - constitutional authority to write law,
Only Congress may write law, as stated in the constitution.
And please, spare me your authoritarian and bizarre reasonIng that congress can give away its law-making authority to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.
The list, ping
This guy is taking a chainsaw to the economy. Maybe power plant owners should go on strike for a few days to let people know what to expect.
To curb power use we should shut the power off to all non military federal buildings at noon. We can turn it back on at 10:00 A.M.
She’s probably a major source of methane, too.
OK, it’s easy to figure out what stocks to sell on Monday morning. What stocks do I buy on Monday morning?
will we be sent of to the Gov’s version of Auschwitz?
Rabid environmentalists believe that only 1/10th of the humans now alive should be alive. And some of them are nasty enough to try to make it happen...like Soros
will we be sent of to the Gov’s version of Auschwitz?
Rabid environmentalists believe that only 1/10th of the humans now alive should be alive. And some of them are nasty enough to try to make it happen...like Soros
I declare the EPA to be a public danger. They are to cease and desist all actions at once.
Anybody who swallows the “CO2 is a pollutant” line can’t help but be a major source of methane.
Great post/thread. BTTT!
When they say wildlife, I assume they are talking about Las Vegas and any other bar Tiger enters.
What is amazing is the IGNORANCE of this. CO2? Look it up, it is a “nothing” gas compared to water vapor’s ability to hold heat (i.e. clouds). These people are smoking dope and the people that follow and believe them are simply IGNORANT. No wonder Obama won the election with have the populace unable to point out Afghanistan on a map or know who the Vice President is/was. Culprit? The damned school system in this country ... the commies took it over years ago and we are reaping the result. CO2 indeed ... SUCH STUPIDITY. This is why we spend the budget we do on schools? Kids are better taught at home, PERIOD!
Public Jobs Program. Policing your carbon output. The economy will continue to erode.
The EPA, as many other gov’t depts, is filled with socialist leaning lifers and the EPA is the worst. They are primariliy an anti-business aganecy.
Sheeyit. Ubama don't need no steenking leverage.
He's in on the hoax just like he was in on that publicity stunt at the State Dinner.
The man is a disgrace to his race.
The human race.
EPA and Obama: destroying what little economic recovery we managed to eek out this year...next year.
A H1N1 on their houses.
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