CO2 Rules: The Anti-Stimulus
Climate Change: The EPA has prepared a finding for review that global warming is a public health threat, the first step toward regulating the American economy down to your lawn mower.
Environmentalists celebrated a victory on Monday when the White House acknowledged that the Environmental Protection Agency had transmitted its proposed finding that global warming is a public health threat. The U.S. Supreme Court directed the EPA two years ago to decide that question, ruling that if it found warming to be a threat, it must under the law regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
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William L. Kovacs, vice president of environment, technology and regulatory affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says an effort to regulate greenhouse gases based on the EPA’s finding “will be devastating to the economy.”