EPA Takes Aim at Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Following up on its promise in April to go after greenhouse gases, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that it will declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant if Congress does not act soon. EPA chief Lisa Jackson told lawmakers at a hearing on Capitol Hill that she is prepared to file a formal “endangerment finding” that would trigger federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions within the next few months.
Jackson’s move has been viewed by Washington observers as an attempt to prod the Senate into taking up a House bill affecting energy policy and climate change. Senators have been slow to react to the proposal, in part because of distractions from the health care reform debate.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
EPA to Declare CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant (by Jennifer A. Dlouhy, San Francisco Chronicle)
EPA Moves Closer to Regulating Greenhouse Gases (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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