EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health

YAHOO ^ | 12/7/09 | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT

[janetjanet998]

WASHINGTON – Officials tell The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated. The EPA will announced its findings at a news conference Monday. The announcement is timed to boost the Obama administration's arguments at an international climate conference — beginning this week — that the United States is taking actions to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation. Under a Supreme Court ruling, the so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from power plants, factories and automobiles under the federal Clean Air Act.

[Right Wing Assault]

How insane are we to put an unelected department in the position to damage our economy and tax business and citizens without us having a say!!

Taxation without representation! No, that slogan just doesn’t quite make it these days.

[blasater1960]

This is very serious! According NPR, this gives Obama to act WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL to stop "greenhouse gas" emissions.

Everyone needs to tune into Mark Levin today....I'm sure he will explain the seriousness of this looming unconstitutional tyrrany headed our way.! WE have to impeach this guy somehow before he destroys us!

[corvus]

“There may be a few real scientists at the agency cringing at this alchemy approach to “clean air.”

Prob’ly very few real science types. Mostly degreed bureaucrats with long enviro-biased resumes. EPA has been a lawyer (lawyers and lawyers of lawyers) agency ever since Nixon appointed Ruckelshaus, a lawyer, its first director.

[thecraw]

If all Democrats would just stop breathing, the “problem” would be solved!

Now that's the best idea I've heard today!

[b4its2late]

I guess they missed the fact that Global Warming is a hoax, which we have thought all along, but now have emails to prove it.

[The Citizen Soldier]

I have 10 inches of fresh snow.

First snow in Sacramento in 30 years, early this morning.

[TaxRelief]

Now we know that our current administration is full of poorly-educated idiots.

CO2 is the building block of life, for Pete’s sake!

[mad_as_he$$]

I bet that is one Mongolian Cluster!!!!

[thecraw]

I guess they missed the fact that Global Warming is a hoax, which we have thought all along, but now have emails to prove it.

I urge all FReepers to download the proof of this epic fraud from wikileaks.org HERE so that as many people as possible have it stored on their hard drives.

ROFL! I'll bet they LOVE the internet (it's no wonder they're trying to shut it down.) But I've got news for 'em - they will FAIL!

[brityank]

I’ve been using an asthma inhaler for a long time, before they switched to the stupid HFA, and I’m still alive.

Yep; but only by your own perseverance. Have you seen this yet? The National Campaign to Save CFC Asthma Inhalers has gathered lots of info on the pure lack of efficacy of the HFA compounded albuterol verses the CFC compounded. Good luck, FRiend.

[SaraJohnson]

Hopefully a hero will take the EPA to court over this.

[b4its2late]

Will do!

[socialismisinsidious]

No worries! All your CO2 induced ailments will be covered under Obamacare! (however, your mammogram won’t)

[La Enchiladita]

“Industry lawyers say if the EPA finalizes its auto emissions rule by March 31 as expected, regulation of the greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide would automatically start 60 days later at the end of May. “

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091207-709708.html

[La Enchiladita]

“Without any cost analyses of new greenhouse gas regulations, it’s difficult to estimate what the actual impact could be on the economy. Dan Riedinger, a spokesman for the utility industry group Edison Electric Institute, pointed to cost predictions for federal legislation. Estimates vary between $100 a year to $1,000 a year extra for families, and such legislation is specially designed to moderate costs.

“The only certainty is that EPA regulation would be far more expensive than Congressional-designed legislation,” Riedinger said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091207-709708.html

[editor-surveyor]

"I don’t think so, it is pretty nippy out there!"

I'll bet!

I just got word that the CHP has a chain advisory stop at the outskirts of Oakdale (elevation 100' +/-)

[editor-surveyor]

"The idea that CO2 and methane are “pollution” is patently absurd, but par for the course for 0 and his merry band."

They're the very building blocks of life!

[Luke21]

Yes. “Officials tell the Associated Press..” This is old Pravda type stuff.

[Favor Center]

“Besides government, is their ANYTHING that is not harmful to the human race???”

Life. It is, after all, 100% fatal.

[stephenjohnbanker]

40 early this morning in AZ