Posted on 02/23/2014 10:21:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to address climate change. That shouldn’t be a controversial statement, but in some quarters, it is. Indeed, it’s at the heart of a set of legal challenges that will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday.
As administrator of the EPA from 2001-03, I served in the administration of President George W. Bush. I may sometimes disagree with his successor on the best way to address climate change as a matter of policy, but I absolutely agree that the EPA has broad authority to issue regulations addressing climate change, including those being challenged by industry groups and their allies in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, otherwise known as “the greenhouse gas cases,” or UARG for short.
Climate change is the defining environmental challenge of our time, and there are huge consequences for inaction — whether measured in human lives or economic disruption. Given these stakes, I wish Congress would step up and do its job, refining America’s approach to climate change and expanding the tools at the EPA’s disposal. In previous decades, the EPA could rely upon bipartisan majorities to revise the Clean Air Act and address new and growing air pollution problems directly. Today, gridlock and partisanship make such common-sense action all but impossible. Nevertheless, the Clean Air Act — as written — remains the most powerful tool the EPA has at its disposal to address the issue of climate change....
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Never underestimate a Hoosier.
The power of the monarchy was absolute at the time, and Canute set his chair by the ocean and commanded the tide not to rise.
He got wet of course.
I hear that she and her husband are quite wealthy. Why don’t they blow their own money on stopping global warming
See post #19.
Heh.
And now for the rest of the story.
http://www.scifiwright.com/2008/06/king-canute-and-the-surging-tide/
Hatchet face got a puss that would stop a clock.
Reminds me of the guy who is arguing that there is no fundamental difference between zero and one.
I forget the particulars of that mind sominex offhand.
But it is equally laughable.
“Let it be known how worthless is the power of kings...”
If only modern politicians could be bothered to figure out how empty and meaningless their power is.
One day, they will.
I would that it were today.
Looks like C-Todd-Witless thinks EPA is God... so sorry for her ass... she’s wrong.
It’s King Canute of Denmark. He was disturbed at the sycophancy of his court and quizzed them as to the limits of his own powers, asking finally, “If I command the tide not come in, will it obey?” His court affirmed to a man that it would. He then ordered that he be taken to the seaside where he made the order, only to have the sea rise and lap at his feet. He took the occasion to berate his court, in the possibly bowdlerized version that I learned from MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE WORLD or some such.
It does seem that people don’t understand that in the story it was not him, but his sycophant followers that were shown to be foolish.
The hubris from the leftist Nazis is astounding.
If these Big Government narcissists think they can change Natural Law, they will try to change the climate. Totalitarianism is the attempt to change the impossible.
When you find someone dishonest and evil enough to promote the AGW Hoax-—PRESTO! You’ve also found a pro-abort.
And vice versa.
Of course, they don't think that. They think that the massive emissions, and they are that, of CO2 etc. by our industrial activities is inexorably changing the climate according to Natural Law, i.e. physics. It's far from a ridiculous assertion.
Christine Todd Whitman is the president of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm that specializes in energy and environmental issues. WSG offers a comprehensive set of solutions to problems facing businesses, organizations, and governments; they have been at the forefront of helping leading companies find innovative solutions to environmental challenges.
Yep, we had a lot of conservatives running things from 2000 to 2008. And conservatives controlled the senate and the house for 6 of those years. /s
And the debt went through the roof. Now the same rinos keep raising the debt limit while saying they don’t want to.
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