Sentences with phrase «endangerment finding for»

In 2009, the EPA finalized its science - based endangerment finding for heat - trapping emissions, including carbon pollution.

Transcript: «hell to pay» if Trump targets EPA's endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions

In testimony for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing (earlier post) on the proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (earlier post), Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson urged the EPA to include black carbon in the finding.

questioned the process used to evaluate the scientific basis for EPAâ $ ™ s proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

He questioned the science underpinning EPA's Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases, and alleged inappropriate usage of the Clean Water Act to restrict surface mining.

There are of course many individuals who oppose the EPA endangerment finding for two main reasons, (i) they oppose any steps to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and (ii) they oppose any government regulations.

Markey further pressed Boyce on Peabody Energy's petition for reconsideration of the EPA Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases, asking for a straight answer on the validity of the science.

The EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding for carbon has been successfully defended in the courts.

If carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant when present in excessive concentrations in the atmosphere — which the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding for carbon says that it is — then by law and by past precedent the Clean Air Act is the appropriate means for controlling all of America's own greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of their source.

Update January 10, 2018: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce confirmed today it is no longer trying to overturn the EPA's endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions, but top U.S. Chamber officials still continued to mislead on climate science and align with...

A senior energy official at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently warned that there will be «hell to pay» if the Trump administration tries to rescind the EPA's science - based endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions.

EPA adds insult to injury with its endangerment finding for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

There remains the fact that the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding for carbon pollution, written under the authority of the Clean Air Act, has been upheld by the US Supreme Court.

As I remarked to Rud and to David, now that the endangerment finding for carbon pollution has been published and has been successfully defended in the courts, the EPA is assigned by law to act as the central coordinating agency of government in crafting a regulatory pathway which mitigates the dangers of carbon pollution, as those dangers are described in the finding.

Once the endangerment finding for carbon pollution had been published, the EPA was assigned by law to become the central coordinating agency of government in crafting a regulatory pathway which mitigates the dangers of carbon pollution, as those dangers are described in the finding; and further, to do so to an extent which is commensurate with the stated dangers.

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).

Not exact matches

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).

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

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.

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

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.

But to meet the Supremes» criteria for regulation, EPA first had to find that the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were an «endangerment» to public health and welfare.

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].

That an IPCC report, upon which (for example) the EPA relies for an endangerment finding turns out to be ridden with speculation from dubious sources, then it's time to shovel lead.

EPA seeks comment on the best available science for purposes of the endangerment discussion, and in particular on the use of the more recent findings of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

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The endangerment finding will «set the stage for an economic train wreck and a constitutional crisis,» wrote the Competitive Enterprise Institute and seven other «free market» groups in a letter sent to EPA's Jackson on Wednesday.

He used to work for the EPA, where he was an author of the «Technical Support Document» for their infamous finding of «endangerment» from carbon dioxide, which is the only legal excuse President Obama has for his onslaught of expensive and climatically inconsequential restrictions of fossil fuel - based energy.

An endangerment finding and some proposed regulations for cars and power plants would help establish the administration's negotiating credentials, whether or not the regulations are final at that point, according to Sierra Club's Bookbinder.

[3] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, «Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act,» in Federal Register, Vol.

«The messages of the two points outlined in the extract above are: (1) the claims about increases in frequency and intensity of extreme events are generally not supported by actual observations and, (2) official information about climate science is largely controlled by agencies through (a) funding choices for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National Climate Assessment.»

On February 12, three organizations filed a Petition for Reconsideration in which they stated, «EPA's Endangerment Finding is based on non-scientific reports by the IPCC and scientifically indefensible global temperature datasets.»

We should never have gotten here if the court had required the EPA to provide evidence for the endangerment finding using mandated scientific methods but they dropped the ball there so here we are.

But even with the «environmental» groups» strong influence, the Obama Administration may not have trusted the SAB to render the invalid scientific conclusions on climate alarmism they wanted in their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and failed to submit their GHG Endangerment Finding to the SAB for review despite the clear need for it to do so on such an important and influential issue.

Guith's comments belie the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's official policy priorities for 2017, which include plans to, «Oppose EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gases under the existing Clean Air Act, including the endangerment finding.»

I think there absolutely is momentum, but the one thing I'll say is that rescinding the endangerment finding, and this is something Ted Cruz talked about quite a bit when he ran for president.

The basis for the EPA's GHG Endangerment Finding is their three lines of evidence, as found in the EPA EF Technical Support Document (page 47):

Guith: I think there absolutely is momentum, but the one thing I'll say is that rescinding the endangerment finding, and this is something Ted Cruz talked about quite a bit when he ran for president.

The cases may well follow the pattern that played out after EPA's «endangerment» finding, motor vehicles rule, and new source review rules: More than 100 lawsuits were filed, but all were brought together for joint argument in court.

Once that determination has been made and a positive Endangerment Finding has been published — and after the substance has been labeled a «pollutant» and its emissions labeled as «pollution» — it is the EPA's responsibility to act as the lead agency of government in developing and implementing a strategy and a plan for reducing emissions of the pollutant and for mitigating its dangers.

If society can not trust the integrity of the data, then how on earth can this data be used to justify the endangerment finding and the massive restructuring of the world economy for essentially no effect, as enthusiastically championed by al gore?

The «smoking gun» that could undo the endangerment finding is to find flaws in the climate models, said Pat Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute.

On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency — and against a legion of state Attorneys General and industry groups — on the EPA's greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding.

Carlin spent decades as an economist working at the EPA before becoming a conservative media darling for publicly accusing the agency of muzzling his criticism of the endangerment finding.

«They're laying groundwork for it, they want to do this red, blue study, debate on science before we get there,» Murray said of the endangerment finding.

«If Scott Pruitt tried to challenge the endangerment finding, he'd be laughed out of court,» David Doniger, director and senior attorney for Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program, told HuffPost.

Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act (284 pages,.

Carlin: I made three main points in my comments to EPA on the draft Technical Support Document (TSD), the technical basis for EPA's Endangerment Finding.