If allowed to stand, the very existence of EPA's
Endangerment Finding requires regulation that significantly increases U.S. fossil fuel and electricity prices — negatively impacting job creation as well as energy, economic and national security.
Not exact matches
Obama is, in fact, basically stating, in a fairly reasonable fashion, that he is going to actually follow the Supreme Court ruling and allow EPA to
find endangerment which will
require action.
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 most important is to withdraw the USEPA GHG
Endangerment Finding so that the expensive, counter-productive climate alarmist policies
required by this
Finding can not be brought back at the next change in Administrations.
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.
Note: A federal appeals court this week emphatically upheld the
endangerment finding, concluding that the EPA was «unambiguously correct» that the Clean Air Act
requires the federal government to impose limits once it has determined that emissions are causing harm.
With a proposed rule on light - duty vehicles waiting in the wings, the agency issued today — opening day for the climate talks in Copenhagen — its «
endangerment finding» concluding that GHGs pose a threat to both public health and welfare, tests
required under the Clean Air Act in order to regulate emissions from point sources, such as power plants, manufacturing plants, and vehicles.
Wasting $ 100 billion in tax dollars for «research» into Carbon
endangerment findings, does not
require proper science....
In Mass. v. EPA, the Court based its decision partly on the view that an
endangerment finding would not lead to «extreme measures,» such as an outright ban on motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.76 However,
requiring tens of thousands of small sources to obtain PSD permits and 6.1 million to obtain Title V permits annually would be an extreme case.
Revocating the climate
endangerment finding will similarly
require testimony of brave people such as Doc Carlin against the climate change cargo cult.
As the federal government's most comprehensive assessment of the harmful impacts of climate change on human health and public welfare in the United States, this report, years in the making, should have been used in developing EPA's
required «
endangerment»
finding as a step toward regulating greenhouse gases, instead of keeping the work of the Climate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision support role.