Posted on 04/17/2009 8:34:15 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
The Environmental Protection Agency today plans to propose regulating greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that these pollutants pose a danger to the public's health and welfare, according to several sources who asked not to be identified.
The move, coming almost exactly two years after the Supreme Court ordered the agency to examine whether emissions linked to climate change should be curbed under the Clean Air Act, would mark a major shift in the federal government's approach to global warming.
Former President George W. Bush and his deputies opposed putting mandatory limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases for years on the grounds that it would harm the economy; Congress is considering legislation that would do so but it remains unclear whether it can pass the proposal and enact it into law in the near future.
Late last month EPA sent the White House a formal finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare; the Office of Management and Budget signed off on the determination Monday.
When reached this morning, EPA spokesman Allyn Brooks-LaSure declined to comment on the matter.
President Obama pledged to limit greenhouse gases as a candidate, but has urged Congress to send him a bill that would cap them and allow emitters to trade pollution allowances nationwide. EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson, in a speech at the Aspen Environment Forum last month, emphasized that the administration still hopes the country will develop a legislative answer to the question of how best to limit greenhouse gases.
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Everyone is accountable to someone, even bureaucrats. Just not the voting public. Our nation,indeed most nations ceased to be democratic regimes where the will of the people is respected. A dictatorial cabal has slice by slice been taking over and I am afraid we will have to remove them the same way the elites have always been removed in history.
Yes / No statements do not constitute comparative analysis. Comparative analysis must take into account a matter of degree and how liberal or conservative someone is on issues. If you are unable to see differences then you have no business voting. I’d love to have McCain President but only in comparison to Obama.
Agreed. McCain would have wanted the same thing, he’s as much of a Goreaholic as Obama, so sanity didn’t have a chance last November. So voting for McCain would not have had an impact on this new ruling.
That's a great line, I like it.
Yup, that's very true.
Just wait until you get a letter in the mail requiring you to report to a termination facility. According to Government records you are reaching the allowable number of breaths allocated to your person.
...and to make him millions and millions of dollars and receive a couple of nifty gold statues too!
so infuriating
You betcha on the thermostat...Smart Grid??
Yeah...and all those weirdos in San Fran who have an asphixiation fetish will get tax credits.
thanks.
exactly. which is why Obama wants it and not just this epa crap. he needs a money racket like algore.
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