E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

NY Times ^ | 2/18/2009 | John M. Broder

[phatus maximus]

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.

The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States’ negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.

The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding.

Lisa P. Jackson, the new E.P.A. administrator, said in an interview that she had asked her staff to review the latest scientific evidence and prepare the documentation for a so-called endangerment finding. Ms. Jackson said she had not decided to issue such a finding but she pointedly noted that the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts v. E.P.A., is April 2, and there is the wide expectation that she will act by then.

“We here know how momentous that decision could be,” Ms. Jackson said. “We have to lay out a road map.”

[phatus maximus]

Sigh...Every day for how long do we have to put up with disappointment after disappointment from the Federal government and it's horribly greedy agencys...how long??

[RockinRight]

No, let them keep doing it.

They’re setting the stage for a conservative revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades.

[Dallas59]

Unfrigginbelievable.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Obamacorns come up with an exhale tax! Great!

[bigbob]

Going after the plant vote

[phatus maximus]

Well said and I do believe you are correct...My life is a pretty loyal lefty and I think she’s somewhat starting to see the cracks in the dam...I’m gonna keep working on her ;-)

[JRandomFreeper]

Just until they mess with the bubbles in Bubba's beer. But they're only talking about regulating CO2. It's up to us to remind Bubba that the bubbles in his beer ARE CO2.

/johnny

[phatus maximus]

This should have been Obama’s theme song in reality...How prophetic were the Beatles?

Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman

Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Don’t ask me what I want it for
If you don’t want to pay some more
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman

Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
And you’re working for no one but me.

[datura]

Decades? How about since our nation’s founding.

We get to witness - and participate in - the actual rebirth of America. Just not the one the Left is drunkenly thinking that is happening.

[LibFreeOrDie]

The decision...would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power.

Well, this will really help the economy recover! /double sarcasm with cheese

[FreepShop1]

to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding.

Anyone who can watch "Great Global Warming Swindle" and still believe that is certifiably insane.

[phatus maximus]

I assume you mean “legal medicinal plants” and/or those who consistently smoke said “legal medicinal plants” when dried and shredded?

[FreepShop1]

They’re setting the stage for a conservative revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades.

In 16 years perhaps, and with China and the new global superpower.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Will I still be able to exhale?

[MtnClimber]

I would regulate the ability of politicians (the ones who support this) to exhale.

[phatus maximus]

Yes We Can and at only .001 cents per minute, consider your life a bargain!!

[EternalVigilance]

Sigh...

That's going to cost you! Who knows how many greenhouse gasses you exhaled with that sigh!

[Lauren BaRecall]

We better start breathing a lot more and directly on plants. Not enough CO2, and there won’t be enough plants making the stuff WE breathe.

Has anyone thought of that? I like AIR on my planet! *Sustainable* air, and plenty of it!

(I hate that word “sustainable.”)

[phatus maximus]

That ok, because “Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes” per J-Zone, the rapstar....

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/lyrics/album.1456/title.pimps-dont-pay-taxes

[Big_Monkey]

What I'm tired of is the phrase "greenhouse gas". It's not the gas in the greenhouse that makes it warm. It's the glass ceiling and lack of air flow - from a physics perspective, can it get more elementary than that?

Global Warming - PT Barnum would be so very, very proud.