Sentences with phrase «epas endangerment finding»

It also rejected U.S. EPA's 2009 endangerment finding, which established that climate change is a threat to public health.

The EPA's stance, however, was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007, and one of the first actions of Lisa Jackson, the new EPA administrator under the Obama administration, was to declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare and release a proposed endangerment finding largely built on the earlier ignored analysis.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

Because the endangerment finding dramatically expands EPA's power, the agency fiercely opposes S.J.Res.26, depicting it as an attack on science.

The resolution would overturn the «legal force and effect» of the endangerment finding, not its reasoning or conclusions.

The «rule» that Murkowski's measure would strike down was the endangerment finding proposed officially in December — which EPA called a rule because it was released in the rulemaking process with public comments and reviews.

Although a strong case can be made that the endangerment finding is scientifically flawed, the Murkowski resolution neither takes nor implies a position on climate science.

The EPA has yet to issue its «endangerment finding,» despite pressure from environmental groups who first sued the agency to start the rulemaking process in 2010.

Last year the agency finalized an official «endangerment finding» declaring that greenhouse gasses endanger public health or welfare.

Judges David Tatel and Patricia Millett noted in one paragraph that EPA in 2009 issued an «endangerment finding» determining that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.

Many observers expect Pruitt to steer clear of a direct challenge to the endangerment finding, despite pressure from some conservatives.

The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.

«I don't think you're gonna see [Pruitt] challenge the endangerment finding,» McCarthy told E&E.

CTA and other environmental groups have written the EPA Administrator demanding that the agency implement the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts, et al v. EPA (CTA Global Warming Case) by issuing proposed regulations and an endangerment finding.

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challenged the science of the Endangerment Finding, the legal finding allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.

Harry MacDougald helped the Competitive Enterprise Institute challenged the science of the Endangerment Finding, the legal finding allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.

Wigley, in a private email not intended for public consumption, muses about «reopening the public comment period» for Michael's PhD (this is an allusion to Michaels calling for a reopening of the EPA's endangerment finding on CO2).

MacDougald and Francis Menton of New York filed on a petition for reconsideration of the Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases on behalf of the climate denying group Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council (CHECC).

As a feat of bureaucratic self - dealing, the endangerment finding is off the charts.

Yet by Train's logic, Congress signed off on that too, simply because EPA has made an endangerment finding.

Statement of Marlo Lewis on S.J.Res.26, Sen. Murkowski's resolution to overturn EPA's endangerment finding

The resolution would overturn the endangerment finding's «legal force and effect,» not its reasoning or conclusions.

The endangerment finding thus sets the stage for eco-litigation groups to transform the Clean Air Act into an economic suicide pact.

S.J.Res.26 would overturn the EPA's endangerment finding, a December 2009 rulemaking in which the agency concluded that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.

The endangerment finding is a classic case of bureaucratic self dealing.

From my initial readings, it is a superior document than the draft of the Unified Synthesis Product released for comment by the USCCSP earlier this summer (for which the public comments were sufficient to have the CCSP rethink the contents and release date of the final document), but, it is still in need of some modification and, most importantly, its support of an endangerment finding is still in question.

«-RRB-, are all a-twitter over an apparently «suppressed» document that supposedly undermines the EPA Endangerment finding about human emissions of carbon dioxide and a basket of other greenhouse gases.

«Nevertheless, several of the opinions and ideas proposed by this individual were submitted to those responsible for developing the proposed endangerment finding.

The saga of the endangerment finding that wasn't now seems similar to how a great many decisions were made in the Bush White House: (via the NY Times)

Jason Burnett, at the time a top adviser to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, wrote the original endangerment finding document and sent it to the White House for a final review.

First, the endangerment finding, which is the foundation for all the regulation, is intact.

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

In World Climate Report yesterday, we have this note about EPA economist Alan Carlin's «suppressed» piece on the proposed EPA Endangerment Finding.

And yet the Carlin report had the temerity to claim that the carefully reasoned assessment that led to the EPA's endangerment finding was based on evidence and observations that were «out of date.»

Senator Inhofe, the premier contrarian lawmaker on Capitol Hill, said heatedly of the Carlin report's suppression that «we're going to expose this,» adding that the EPA «cooked the books» and that «the science is not there» to support the official endangerment finding.

[Response: The endangerment finding has nothing to do with cap - and - trade.

The endangerment finding was so unexceptional that not even the four justices who said in the 2007 decision that CO2 was not a pollutant were interested in it.

What's more, rescinding the plan does nothing to address its underlying basis: the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding that requires the agency to take action under the Clean Air Act to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The Act required EPA to then determine whether CO2 «is reasonably anticipated to endanger health or welfare,» otherwise known as an «endangerment finding.»

The Coalition for Responsible Regulation filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 to challenge the latter's endangerment finding over Greenhouse gases [2].

«Following that was the endangerment finding in 2009, which eventually led to the Paris discussion and clean power plan, all the rulemaking and the climate action agenda of the previous administration,» he recalled.

The EPA argues that it need not undertake a new endangerment finding to adopt the proposed standard, because the agency already determined in December 2009 that «air pollution» related to greenhouse gas emissions «may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare.»

Joseph D'Aleo was one of fourteen Amici, described as «well - qualified climate scientists,» who claimed that the «EPA's endangerment finding is not «rational» and therefore arbitrary and capricious.»

According to those who have accessed early drafts of the EPA's endangerment findings, the original conclusion was that the country could raise automobile fuel efficiency standards to 37.7 miles per gallon by 2018 without significant economic hardship.