Excerpts from Reuters story: EPA C02 endangerment finding to White House
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final proposal on whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to human health and welfare to the White House for review, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told Reuters on Monday.
The EPA’s final finding, if it follows the agency’s earlier assessment and is approved by the Office of Management and Budget, would allow the EPA to issue rules later to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, even if Congress fails to pass legislation to cut U.S. emissions of the heat-trapping gases that contribute to global warming.
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She said the OMB has up to 90 days to review the proposal, but the EPA would like a quicker timetable.
“We’ve briefed them a couple of times. So we’re hoping for an expedited review,” Jackson said.
Along with its final endangerment finding, the EPA also sent to OMB the agency’s final finding on whether cars and trucks “cause or contribute to that pollution,” Jackson said.
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She said the EPA received more than 300,000 comments on its initial proposed public health endangerment and vehicle pollution findings that were issued last April.
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“EPA lawyers: Cap-and-trade bill is “fatally flawed””
They say this on a video they made for YouTube. The EPA is displeased.
Time for Fox News to get their speed reader to review all the comments. I assume the EPA is required to make them available (if not, time for a FOIA). Once the results were known the EPA would be forced to support their decision.
By the way, Chris R.:
While DDT is probably not a strong human carcinogen, it is a known mammal carcinogen, and it is listed as a “probable” human carcinogen by the American Cancer Society and every other cancer fighting organization on Earth.
Those findings are based on many human studies, not “just two disputed animal studies.” There is no serious dispute that DDT is a carcinogen for animals.
Since water vapor and droplets make up roughly 70% of the greenhouse layer while CO2 contributes about 3%, shouldn’t we be more concerned with regulating water and water vapor as a pollutant? Another major concern, I would think, is these new fuel cell vehicles running on hydrogen and emitting only water. Won’t this cause global flooding?
I tried to leave a comment at the EPA’s and all I got for my trouble was a non-specific message that said that there was a problem with my submission. When I tried to go back, my comments were gone. Typical government incompetence
I am using my heater with the lights on at the computer. It is cold, dark and I have something to say. This message brought to you by energy companies – the reason you have everything you own. And rather then a thank you, they get this.
Thank you, energy companies!