Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/07/2009 11:51:00 AM PST by GonzoII
America's Environmental Protection Agency has announced that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health.
The ruling will allow it to regulate emissions without the approval of the US Congress - a move designed to show President Obama is taking climate change seriously.
The president and more than 100 other world leaders, including Gordon Brown, are set to attend a summit at the end of the talks in Copenhagen, which take place until December 18.
The meeting is being described as the "best, last chance" to save the planet.
The Obama administration wants to show that the US, which has shunned the current Kyoto Protocol, is taking action to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation.
Around 15,000 delegates are attending the talks which aim to agree immediate action to curb greenhouse gases and come up with billions of pounds in aid and technology to help poorer countries limit emissions.
The EPA has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated.
The so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from power plants, factories and cars.
The EPA would be able to order better insulation or greener technology to reduce emissions in the US, the world's largest economy and second biggest source of carbon blamed for global warming.
But the move has already faced fierce resistance by Republicans in Congress, which has yet to finalise legislation that would order emission cuts by 2020 of between 17% and 20% from 2005 levels.
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"would be able to order"
"would be able to order"
"would be able to order...."
The EPA....the new taxing authority.
End around power grab.
This may be the end of the EPA.
Huh? So the EPA's decision is based on politics designed to shore up Obama's image.
I thought they were basing it on some kind of science.
does EPA set out any validated data to justify their draconian policy??
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Can congress defund or disband the EPA?
*ping*
Total bovine feces.
“This may be the end of the EPA.”
How so? I don’t follow?
The EPA’s orders can be regulated or rescinded by Congress.
I think Congress is going to have to reign in the EPA; and hopefully this will be the start of real Congressional oversight over many other federal agencies gone wild.
The Fourth Branch of Government:
—— The Regulatory Branch. ——
Nothing like checks and balances to keep things from getting out of hand
Our socialist dictator is expanding his tax power.
Yes, they got it from fraudsters Michael Mann and Phil Jones of East Anglia University......
Will particularly enjoy sinking the EPA!
Damn the RINOs!! Full steam ahead!!
Graham, McCain, et al, can KMA!!
US, the world’s largest economy and second biggest source of carbon
Second biggest source? What a crock, during the Kyoto BS we weren’t even allowed to count our immense forests in the end numbers. Last time I looked I thought the trees turned Carbon Dioxide(which isn’t bad) into better stuff, like oxygen. These commies on Bambi’s staff are going to ruin us.
We are all doomed. I do not know if this country can survive 3 more years of this radical socialist.
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