In 1994, the Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (IWG) was established under Executive Order 12898. The IWG is comprised of eleven federal agencies and several White House offices. Each agency, with leadership from EPA, is working to integrate environmental justice into its individual programs. http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/interagency/We are pushing the EPA to reveal the data they used to justify their endangerment proposal. We need to drop the articles of faith and use the entirety of scientific study on the effects of climate change not a sub-set, chosen by the EPA not for its validity but rather on its ability to forward their policy goal — the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. The agency used secondary scientific sources, studies that largely weren’t adequately peer-reviewed and the selective use of scientific studies to justify a policy decision they wanted to make. There are many questions to be asked of the EPA, and forgive the Chamber for not accepting “Trust Us” as an answer. To enact effective policy we need transparency and scientific data which is beyond question, not data deemed beyond questioning.
More on our efforts for transparency here
http://www.chamberpost.com/2009/06/transparency-science-and-the-epa.html Congress, not the EPA, is the appropriate authority to deal with such a complex regulatory issue that needs and deserves transparency and rigorous public debate. We urge you to take quick action to help us stop EPA from moving forward with these regulations and to let Congress continue to address the issue.
The EPA’s proposed rule is subject to a 60-day comment period, which ends on December 28, 2009. Please add your digital signature to the letter below and post a comment as to why you oppose this move by the EPA. At the end of the comment period, we will submit the letter and comments to the EPA as part of the official record. Every signature matters.
National Association of Manufacturers
http://namissvr.nam.org/minisites/EPA/index.aspx
COP15 Proposals – summary from AEP simulcast from Copenhagen today
(Americans for Prosperity) http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site
COP15 Proposals:
- Western Economic Tax of 2% of GDP
- Removal of IP/Patent Rights for New Technology
- US Constitution is “only paper”, so “Copenhagen Treaty” as been renamed an “Agreement” so Obama can sign it on Friday
- Words “worldwide government” has been dropped from the “Treaty”; but there are 700 new global gov entities created
- The “Treaty” contains extensive, significant details (currently not being reported) on establishment of worldwide government
EPA Endangerment Finding:
- Covers 100% of McDonalds (any fast food restaurant)
- Covers all Mining, Cement Plants, PetroChemical Plants, Refineries, Trains, Shipping, Long-haul Trucks
- Covers all Manufacturing sites of any size
- Covers all Buildings in the US of moderate size and larger which use natural gas or heating oil for winter heat
- Unions are advocating “global welfare” for the millions who will become unemployed “during this necessary economic transition period”
Rick Perry:
- 400,000 jobs will be lost in Texas from EPA finding
- Electricity costs will rise $1400 per family, on average
Steve (WSJ):
- In the 1970’s scientists & US gov provided extensive data that Global Cooling was occurring
- Global climate models cannot explain cooling over the last 10 years
- Only FOX News & WSJ are covering the ClimateGate Scandal
Watch the video carefully here