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EPA Finding is Good News

7 hours ago ago from Endangered Spaces blog

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an "endangerment finding" with regard to greenhouse gases. Essentially, the EPA is saying that these gases -- a major cause of global warming -- are a threat to public health, and it will be taking steps to regulate emissions. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can be regulated by the EPA under the 1970 Clean Air Act. The ...

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What the EPA’s carbon finding really means

1 hour, 23 minutes ago ago from The right-wing liberal

Jonah Goldberg has the best analysis of this at NRO . Read the whole thing, but here are the crticial points: On Monday, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, formally announced that her agency now considers carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant, subject to government regulation.  The finding comes two years after the Supreme Court ruled that CO 2 falls under the EPA’s jurisdiction. A day later, an unnamed ...

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An EPA power grab – NYPOST.com

13 hours ago ago from Snow Report Blog

An EPA power grab By IAIN MURRAY & MARLO LEWIS December 9, 2009 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson yesterday an nounced that the EPA has determined that global warming, allegedly caused by mankind's burning of fossil fuels, endangers public health. The finding paves the way for a huge power grab by EPA bureaucrats indeed, more power than even they think they can handle: The likely regulatory cascade ...

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The EPA’s Carbon Bomb Fizzles

12 hours ago ago from www.offmyfrontporch.com

Well this just proves again, when you try to bypass the Constitutional process something may bite you back. The EPA ruling was an attempt at an end run about the Constitutional process of 2/3 of the Senate ratifying any treaty that Obama might sign in Copenhagen. The EPA ruling was an obvious stunt by Obama to put a feather in his cap when he goes to Copenhagen and it may have just backfired on him in the America. Congress should be up in ...

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Controversial EPA Ruling Linked to ‘Climategate’ E-mails

11 hours ago ago from Right Sided American Kafir

Source: Newsmax Controversial EPA Ruling Linked to Climategate' E-mails By: David A. Patten Republicans and conservative think tanks are calling for the Obama administration to revoke its declaration that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant subject to EPA regulation on the grounds that the EPA's primary source of information for the finding was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). An important source of data ...

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Kim Strassel: The EPA's Carbon Bomb Fizzles

13 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

Far from alarm, the feeling sweeping through many quarters of the Democratic Congress is relief. Voters know cap-and-trade is Washington code for painful new energy taxes. With a recession on, the subject has become poisonous in congressional districts. Blue Dogs and swing-state senators watched in alarm as local Democrats in the recent Virginia and New Jersey elections were pounded on the issue, and lost their seats. But now? Hurrah! It's ...

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Toxic Chemicals in Bodies Report From Centers for Disease Control: Environmental Health Advocates Respond

21 hours ago ago from PopEater

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) expected to be released today by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is on the right track with a focus on testing people's bodies for chemical contamination, say environmental health advocates working on chemical exposure issues. According to Pamela K. Miller, executive director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics , "While we ...

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