Posted on 12/06/2009 6:00:43 PM PST by FromLori
Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
An "endangerment" finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions -- even if Congress doesn't pass pending climate-change legislation. EPA action to regulate emissions could affect the U.S. economy more directly, and more quickly, than any global deal inked in the Danish capital, where no binding agreement is expected.
Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.
An EPA action to reduce emissions won't do much to combat climate change, and "is certain to come at a huge cost to the economy," said the Natio
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The EPA may be forced to prove carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant in court.
And, may I add, the EPA is subject to the Data Quality Act and the FOI Act.
We should have required China, Mexico, India and others to meet a basic reasonable environmental standard before we traded with them. Is it now too late?
If nothing else we could have at least made sure the “free trade” was FAIR TRADE it certainly was not by any stretch of the imagination from the get go it was designed to screw Americans for for what Poisonous Zhou Zhou crap!
http://market-ticker.org/archives/1701-The-Requisite-Poison-Toy-Scare.html
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