Posted on 03/23/2009 11:22:02 AM PDT by GOPGuide
The Environmental Protection Agency sent a proposal to the White House on Friday finding that global warming is endangering the public's health and welfare, according to several sources, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the nation's economy and environment.
The proposal -- -- could lay the groundwork for nationwide measures to limit such emissions. It reverses one of the Bush administration's landmark environmental decisions: In July 2008 then-EPA administrator Stephen Johnson rejected his scientific and technical staff's recommendation and announced the agency would seek months of further public comment on the threat posed by global warming pollution.
"This is historic news," said Frank O'Donnell, who heads the public watchdog group Clean Air Watch. "It will set the stage for the first-ever national limits on global warming pollution. And it is likely to help light a fire under Congress to get moving."
But business groups decried the move as an economic disaster.
"By moving forward with the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, EPA is putting in motion a set of decisions that may have far-reaching unintended consequences," said Bill Kovacs, vice president of environment, technology and regulatory affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "Specifically, once the finding is made, no matter how limited, some environmental groups will sue to make sure it is applied to all aspects of the Clean Air Act.
"This will mean that all infrastructure projects, including those under the president's stimulus initiative, will be subject to environmental review for greenhouse gases. Since not one of the projects has been subjected to that review, it is possible that the projects under the stimulus initiative will cease. This will be devastating to the economy."
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Warren Buffet is already nervous...
Obama and congress are doing more to endanger health and wellfare of the people than Gorbull Warming.
This is a warning alert. Attention all citizens. The EPA is a threat to your Wallet!!! I am not voting for anybody til they promise to fire the EPA.
The EPA is just echoing what Obummer and his flunkies wants em to say.
“a move that could have far-reaching implications for the nation’s economy and environment.”
It will have no effect on the “environment” as already proven.
Obama is laying the “consensus” for cap and trade.
I hope someone is keeping a list of the names of these lowlifes for future reference when the time comes for accountability.
Au contraire.
The consequences are entirely intended.
WHAT WARMING???? People have been freezing their a$$es off this winter! The DATA show that the earth is COOLING!
Regulations
Taxes
Unions
Litigation
The four reasons to NOT base a productive business in the United States. These idiots assume a business will stay open and put up with all this crap forever, and then wonder why so much has been “outsourced” already.
ahem...they must have not received the memo that we are now in a cooling trend.
cap:
and trade:
Congress delegated some of that power to insulated, unelected, Central Planning bureaucrats at the EPA.
Scotus rules that this arrangement is Constitutional.
EPA makes decisions, with the force of law that elected members of Congress would never make.
Congressmen publicly wail on EPA decisions, but smile in private.
Congressmen get reelected.
Repeat . . .
Gonna be in the 20’s again here tonight, I know this is weather and not climate but WTH is spring. My ground is still frozen and I should be out planting peas. Please pass a law that lets me plant my peas. LOL
How do we stop this out of control BS?
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