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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So will they regulate how much water vapor is emitted, since it’s by far the most abundant greenhouse gas?
No, it just means it won't be free anymore.
Yet another unconstitutional rogue agency that we let be created.
Obama enjoys regulating every aspect of American life.
Tell me where to set my thermostat?
Tell what days I can eat meat?
Require a permit to travel?
This will up electric/gas rates for everybody. Is this really what the drones wanted when they voted for “change”
According to Vicki McKenna on WISN 1130 Milwaukee 10:00- 12:00 CT ( she is very good btw), this is no laughing matter—basically it leads way for governmental control of energy—and carbon dioxide—carbon—we are carbon life forms?!
Anyway she was going apoplectic today about this & how Brownard (EPA) wanted this and it makes all other issues pale in comparison of control of our human freedoms.
I don’t know if she has podcasts, but if so, would be worth listening to! They have website @
http://www.newstalk1130.com/main.html
“...fourth branch of government, ... The unelected bureaucracy that is accountable to no one.”
This includes all the social workers and family courts that continue to break apart thousand of families, monthly.
They gotta be shut down.
I guess thats the transparency that we were promised huh ???
We need to be selling carbon credits ! If there are people dumb enough to buy em I will sell em to em !
Donate the cash to conservative conservationism !
I can only hope and pray that this idiocy opens up peoples
eyes and minds.
“Growth-enhancing effects of CO2 create an impetus for cooling. Carbon dioxide is a powerful aerial fertilizer, directly enhancing the growth of almost all terrestrial plants and many aquatic plants as its atmospheric concentration rises. And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2-induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet. In addition, many non-sulfur-based biogenic materials of the terrestrial environment play major roles as water- and ice-nucleating aerosols; and the airborne presence of these materials should also be enhanced by rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Hence, it is possible that incorporation of this multifaceted CO2-induced cooling effect into the suite of equations that comprise the current generation of global climate models might actually tip the climatic scales in favor of global cooling in the face of continued growth of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.”
these will be wrapped up in future derivatives and floated as something of value to be used to wipe out whats left of private $$$...we can count on that...
I believe algore has the market cornered, for himself & his drones...
We sell carbon credits, we claim administrative and overhead costs to manage a central location and small staff of office staff and paid board of directors to donate the rest to “conservative” conservation projects and candidate’s......save the right wing ducks per se !
RICO be damned the liberal save the gay illegal whales for islam and racists seems to be be working !
I have maintained for at least the last 15 years that the government will eventually get to the point that they will start taxing us on the amount of air that we breath. it won’t be long folks.
“We need to file a class action lawsuit forcing the EPA to PROVE its claims before they implement any measure that would no doubt hurt the public and our rights under the US Constitution. If the ACLU can play that game so can we!”
I’m torn between wanting to stop this outrageous nonsense & just letting this administration have its way. Sometimes the burned hand teaches best. People will come unglued when they’re paying $10/gallon for gas & can’t heat their homes. The Republicans can reverse these policies when the backlash inevitably happens.
The List, ping
Exactly,...
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