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Christine Todd Whitman: Yes, the EPA Has the Power to Stop Climate Change
Politico Magazine ^ | February 23, 2014 | Christine Todd Whitman, president of Whitman Strategy Group, former NJ Gov., administrator of EPA

Posted on 02/23/2014 10:21:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to address climate change. That shouldn’t be a controversial statement, but in some quarters, it is. Indeed, it’s at the heart of a set of legal challenges that will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday.

As administrator of the EPA from 2001-03, I served in the administration of President George W. Bush. I may sometimes disagree with his successor on the best way to address climate change as a matter of policy, but I absolutely agree that the EPA has broad authority to issue regulations addressing climate change, including those being challenged by industry groups and their allies in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, otherwise known as “the greenhouse gas cases,” or UARG for short.

Climate change is the defining environmental challenge of our time, and there are huge consequences for inaction — whether measured in human lives or economic disruption. Given these stakes, I wish Congress would step up and do its job, refining America’s approach to climate change and expanding the tools at the EPA’s disposal. In previous decades, the EPA could rely upon bipartisan majorities to revise the Clean Air Act and address new and growing air pollution problems directly. Today, gridlock and partisanship make such common-sense action all but impossible. Nevertheless, the Clean Air Act — as written — remains the most powerful tool the EPA has at its disposal to address the issue of climate change....

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrat; assistantdemocrats; christiewhitman; christinetoddwhitman; climatechange; environment; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenpeace; greenspirit; patrickmoore; rino; rinos; whitman
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To: Darksheare
People who firmly believe in the power of government to alter reality are dangerous.

Never underestimate a Hoosier.

21 posted on 02/23/2014 11:01:18 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: gitmo; Salamander

The power of the monarchy was absolute at the time, and Canute set his chair by the ocean and commanded the tide not to rise.
He got wet of course.


22 posted on 02/23/2014 11:01:24 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Fungi

I hear that she and her husband are quite wealthy. Why don’t they blow their own money on stopping global warming


23 posted on 02/23/2014 11:01:27 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: gitmo

See post #19.


24 posted on 02/23/2014 11:03:25 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Darksheare

Heh.


25 posted on 02/23/2014 11:04:09 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Darksheare

And now for the rest of the story.

http://www.scifiwright.com/2008/06/king-canute-and-the-surging-tide/


26 posted on 02/23/2014 11:05:46 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hatchet face got a puss that would stop a clock.


27 posted on 02/23/2014 11:06:36 PM PST by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: cynwoody

Reminds me of the guy who is arguing that there is no fundamental difference between zero and one.
I forget the particulars of that mind sominex offhand.
But it is equally laughable.


28 posted on 02/23/2014 11:07:47 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Salamander

“Let it be known how worthless is the power of kings...”
If only modern politicians could be bothered to figure out how empty and meaningless their power is.


29 posted on 02/23/2014 11:10:59 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

One day, they will.


30 posted on 02/23/2014 11:12:17 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Salamander

I would that it were today.


31 posted on 02/23/2014 11:15:15 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like C-Todd-Witless thinks EPA is God... so sorry for her ass... she’s wrong.


32 posted on 02/23/2014 11:21:48 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: gitmo

It’s King Canute of Denmark. He was disturbed at the sycophancy of his court and quizzed them as to the limits of his own powers, asking finally, “If I command the tide not come in, will it obey?” His court affirmed to a man that it would. He then ordered that he be taken to the seaside where he made the order, only to have the sea rise and lap at his feet. He took the occasion to berate his court, in the possibly bowdlerized version that I learned from MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE WORLD or some such.

It does seem that people don’t understand that in the story it was not him, but his sycophant followers that were shown to be foolish.


33 posted on 02/23/2014 11:22:09 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The hubris from the leftist Nazis is astounding.


34 posted on 02/23/2014 11:26:45 PM PST by vpintheak (Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If these Big Government narcissists think they can change Natural Law, they will try to change the climate. Totalitarianism is the attempt to change the impossible.


35 posted on 02/23/2014 11:32:27 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When you find someone dishonest and evil enough to promote the AGW Hoax-—PRESTO! You’ve also found a pro-abort.

And vice versa.


36 posted on 02/23/2014 11:45:12 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: jonrick46
If these Big Government narcissists think they can change Natural Law, they will try to change the climate.

Of course, they don't think that. They think that the massive emissions, and they are that, of CO2 etc. by our industrial activities is inexorably changing the climate according to Natural Law, i.e. physics. It's far from a ridiculous assertion.

37 posted on 02/23/2014 11:46:41 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: headstamp 2

Christine Todd Whitman is the president of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm that specializes in energy and environmental issues. WSG offers a comprehensive set of solutions to problems facing businesses, organizations, and governments; they have been at the forefront of helping leading companies find innovative solutions to environmental challenges.


38 posted on 02/23/2014 11:59:36 PM PST by kcvl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, we had a lot of conservatives running things from 2000 to 2008. And conservatives controlled the senate and the house for 6 of those years. /s

And the debt went through the roof. Now the same rinos keep raising the debt limit while saying they don’t want to.


40 posted on 02/24/2014 12:11:25 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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