Posted on 12/07/2009 1:12:37 PM PST by markomalley
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson dismissed GOP calls to delay a critical finding on greenhouse emissions in light of hacked e-mails from climate scientists.
EPA documents released Monday state that greenhouse gases threaten human health a finding that is a precursor to planned regulations controlling emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources.
Republicans including House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Darrell Issa (Calif.) said e-mails among climate scientists hacked from a British research institute show holes in the case that humans are causing global warming.
Jackson disagreed.
There is nothing in the hacked e-mails that undermines the science upon which this decision is based, Jackson said in announcing the finding this afternoon. She said the controversial messages dealt only with a tiny fraction of the strong evidence of global warming.
The official birthday of EPA is December 2, 1970.
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The Nixon Administration, although preoccupied with an unpopular war and a recession-ridden economy, took some stopgap action on the environmental front in 1969. In May, President Nixon had set up a Cabinet-level Environmental Quality Council as well as a Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality. His critics charged that these were largely ceremonial bodies, with almost no real power.
Stung by these charges, President Nixon appointed a White House committee in December 1969 to consider whether there should be a separate environmental agency. The President had already asked Litton founder, Roy L. Ash, to take a sweeping look at organizational problems throughout the government.
It was at just this time that Congress sent to the President a remarkable bill known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis)--looking back at the "Environmental Decade" in 1980--called NEPA "the most important piece of environmental legislation in our history." It is easy to see why.
A tone of high-minded idealism pervades this statute. NEPA's stated purposes were:
* "To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment."
* "To promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man."
* "To enrich our understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation."
To further these ends, NEPA called for the formation of a Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to give the President expert advice on environmental matters. The CEQ was also charged with reviewing Environmental Impact Statements, which were now required of all federal agencies planning projects with major environmental ramifications.
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In sending Reorganization Plan No. 3 to Congress on July 9, the President admitted that he had first been reluctant to propose setting up a new independent agency. Eventually, however, he was convinced by all "the arguments against placing environmental protection activities under the jurisdiction of one or another of the existing departments and agencies."
These arguments were twofold: first, the primary mission of each existing department would bias any decisions it made on a government-wide basis concerning the environment; second, the same factors might raise questions about the objectivity of any existing department as a standard-setting body for other agencies and departments.
To avoid such pitfalls, President Nixon called for "a strong, independent agency." The mission of this "Environmental Protection Agency" would be to:
* Establish and enforce environmental protection standards.
* Conduct environmental research.
* Provide assistance to others combatting environmental pollution.
* Assist the CEQ in developing and recommending to the President new policies for environmental protection.
Source: The Birth of the EPA
The destruction of America proceeds apace.
Open revolt to a sitting gubamint that relies on rigged science to achieve its goals?
Coming Soon to a Nation near you.
“The hacked e-mails change nothing”......
Of course! The environmental hacks continue on their merry way!
Given his role in creating socialist agencies like the EPA, I've always wondered why the liberals still hate him with such passion. The EPA along with the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act (now declaring C02 as a pollutant!) have had far-reaching effects on our form of government.
To call CO2 a pollutant is just plain nuts and there is no science on earth to support that claim especially in light of Climategate. Let the lawsuits and injunctions begin.
Translation: The truth means nothing if it counters our efforts toward a socialist “utopia”.
Typical liberal.
Relax, it’s just pasrt of the plan to destroy our economy and enrich our enemies.
The people in charge are nuts. The GOP would do itself a favor to just say that plainly, because the people already know.
We must win the House and Senate in 2010 and stop this madness. I can’t stand being governed by loony liars. Let’s hope some of this legislation can be reversed.
Here is a woman that says climategate changes nothing:
Here is what a Cruminal in Hopenchangen looks like:
Another warmist doing her thing:
Is outright fraud consisteent with the obligations of such a federal office holder?
Translation: "The sky is still falling!"
I’m amazed that these guys are either pretending that climategate didn’t happen, or that it doesn’t matter.
We’re supposed to believe in scientific research, and we’re supposed to believe that scientists have a consensus. Evidence arises to the contrary, but the global warming apologists act like the revelations of climategate don’t matter.
And the scientists have never had a consensus anyway. Al Gore always said they did, but scientists were divided, even before climategate produced evidence of falsifying data to “prove” global warming to the world.
Obama should skip the Copenhagen love fest. He could easily back out by saying, there is such doubt about the subject of climate change, that he wants to back away.
Instead, we see the spectacle of world leaders being pressured to make long range policy decisions based not on any science, but on faith in scientists who falsified data.
It’s a crazy world that’s for sure.
Anybody think this would not be brought up by MSM if GOP was in power?
I recommend going to the link & reading the comments. Very entertaining.
No dear, you’re the nothing. Another worthless “head” in a position only because of political connections. Left to your own talents you would find yourself in the household or custodial industries.
“She said the controversial messages dealt only with a tiny fraction of the strong evidence of global warming.”
Yep. Like the actual temperatures.
Amazing isn't it. It all goes back to 1960, and which side of that election you were on. For the communists it all goes back to Nixon's prosecution of Alger Hiss.
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