Environment Ohio says EPA takes most significant step yet…
In via e-mail from Environment Ohio:
EPA’s Climate Announcement: Most Significant Step Yet
Columbus, Ohio – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today will finalize its proposed finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations, setting the stage for regulating the pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The announcement comes just as world leaders kick off two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen tomorrow on a global climate treaty.
“This is the most significant step the federal government has taken on global warming to date. The Clean Air Act has a proven track record. For nearly 40 years, it has cut pollution that is dangerous to human health and our environment in a cost-effective way. EPA is now putting this proven law to work as one critical tool in the fight against global warming,” said Jeff McCourt, the energy advocate for Environment Ohio.
“This announcement is particularly important for Ohio, which ranks second nationally for CO2 pollution from power plants,” said McCourt, citing an Environment Ohio report released last week. “Once we set a level playing field for clean energy to compete with dirty coal-fired power, it’s off to the races for the innovative Ohio businesses willing to compete in a 21st century marketplace.”
More than two and a half years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the EPA to determine if global warming pollution threatens public health or welfare, a conclusion supported by a worldwide scientific consensus. Today’s action comes in response to that decision and puts EPA on track to take long-overdue steps to reduce global warming pollution from cars, coal-fired power plants, and other large pollution sources under the Clean Air Act.
“Going forward, the Senate also must act to set overall pollution-reduction goals and to accelerate the move to clean energy. But the EPA’s decision today will help to immediately crack down on pollution from cars and mega industrial polluters, like coal-fired power plants. By improving energy efficiency and moving to clean, renewable energy, America can cut global warming pollution and transition to clean energy sources that don’t harm the environment, will never run out, and create millions of new jobs,” said McCourt.
“We applaud President Obama and EPA Administrator Jackson for complying with the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision and embracing the obvious scientific evidence that greenhouse gas pollution endangers the human health and the environment. The Obama administration has put law and science back at the forefront of environmental policy, concluded McCourt.”
The following is the timeline leading up to today’s decision:
* 1999: EPA was first petitioned link to regulate global warming pollutants from new cars and light trucks under the Clean Air Act.
* 2003: The link Bush EPA denied the petition.
* April 2007: The link Supreme Court found, in Massachusetts v. EPA, that global warming pollutants are pollutants under the Clean Air Act, and held that EPA must determine whether these pollutants from new motor vehicles cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.
* December 2007: Thelink Bush EPA prepared a proposal finding that global warming pollutants endanger public welfare, but the White House did not allow the proposal to be released.
* April 2009: The link Obama EPA released its proposed finding, which the agency is finalizing today.
Environment Ohio is a state-based, citizen-funded environmental advocacy organization.
Well if congress won’t approve cap and trade, I guess it will be jammed down our thoughts. CO2 has been deemed a “dangerous” substance. That is the stuff that comes out of our mouths when we exhale. What are they going to do to us next?
December 7th, 2009 at 5:32 pmNot Again – other stuff comes out of you too, I don’t see people advocating for more pee in their water.
December 7th, 2009 at 5:54 pmMore government control of your life is coming soon. That’s all this is about,and taking more money out of your wallet.
December 7th, 2009 at 7:51 pmWhat are they going to do to us again,
Not Again??
Government says they are giving insurance and health care for everyone;
truth is what will still go on and getting much worse is the government and insurance companies saying one can
have something and the other one cannot have it.
Guess they are just going to get rid
December 7th, 2009 at 8:23 pmof certain people, Not Again so there are less
people breathing!
“More than two and a half years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the EPA to determine if global warming pollution threatens public health or welfare, a conclusion supported by a worldwide scientific consensus.”
I find this funny after the hacking last week. Hopefully they weren’t using those scientists’ information or concensus.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:24 pmIts been over 2 weeks, the mainstream media refuses to cover Climategate. And now Co2 is regulated. Science and the media are corrupt
December 7th, 2009 at 10:24 pmEverybody stop breathing, soon it will be outlawed!
December 7th, 2009 at 10:40 pmChuck – Please see HistoryMike’s response…
http://swampbubbles.com/20091205/abc-nbc-and-cbs-still-hoping-climategate-just-goes-away
December 7th, 2009 at 11:16 pmFunny how we keep fighting the same battles.
We were told that if we raise cafe standards for car, the American automobile companies would go lay off 10s of thousands of people and go bankrupt. That worked out well…
Corporations fought for years about whether tobacco and asbestos caused cancer why should this war on rational science be any different?
December 7th, 2009 at 11:35 pmHistoryMike’s response is a little interesting in that the earliest news story shown there came from December 1st, while the news broke Novemeber 20th… Not saying there aren’t earlier stories from MSM, just going off what was given there.
Funny you mention cafe standards (while I tend to lead towards bad management), it does appear that cafe standards on trucks have been rising for the past 6 years (20.7 to 24.1) and the big one, cars is set to rise with the 2011 models (27.5 to 30.2). Especially interesting since most development cycles for autmotive run 12-24 months which would put it roughly about the time that GM and Chrysler went bankrupt. Like I said most likely unrelated just kind of funny
link
December 8th, 2009 at 12:38 amDD BOOTS Says:
“Guess they are just going to get rid
of certain people, Not Again so there are less
people breathing!”
Absolutely right Dboots. That is exactly what John Holdren would like to do.
“Holdren and co-author Paul R. Ehrlich argued that, “if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.”[19] In 1973 Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because “210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many.”[20] In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment; they discussed the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, including forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children, and recommended “the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences” such as access to birth control and abortion.|”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren
http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/
December 8th, 2009 at 5:34 amRead the link in #8. The only poster there who makes a good case is “MikeyA”.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:48 pm