Posted on 02/23/2014 10:21:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to address climate change. That shouldnt be a controversial statement, but in some quarters, it is. Indeed, its 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 Americas approach to climate change and expanding the tools at the EPAs 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....
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Post 58 ping. Some forgotten political history.
whitman is a pinhead of the highest order. Add in obvious dementia and you really have a piece of work.
Another whiny RINO.
“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.”
One can make an otherwise reasonable assertion (massive emissions by industrial activities is inexorably changing the climate) that turns out to be ridiculously overstated when tested against observable reality, as has been shown to be the case here.
What is ridiculous is for those same “asserters” to continue to put forward the same assertion even in the face of evidence to the contrary...and for any thinking person to continue to believe it.
“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.”
In other words, another GOPe crony corporatist with a vested interest in government regulations creating a market for their business model.
Wow thanks very interesting stuff.
Remember when this rino was the darling of the republican establishment....how easy it is for them to switch hit for the progressive anti freedom agenda!!!
Actually Christine (the next GOP Governor of NJ, if there is one, must have a different name!) um NO. No a bunch of unelected bureaucrats should not have the power to essentially make law, that is Congress’s job.
What a lunatic.
Biological activity is part of a cycle, and doesn’t create CO2 by oxidizing “sequestered” carbon. Human activity is unique in this respect.
For me, it is a very complicated issue, and I agree that it is disturbing the way scientists have been turned into climate change commissars. In effect, the science has not been settled so much as harnessed.
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