Sentences with phrase «u.s. endangerment finding»

Based on its U.S. endangerment finding, EPA can regulate GHG emissions via, for example, New Source Performance Standards under Section 111 (the authority for EPA's Clean Power Plan).

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Monsignor William Lynn was found guilty Friday of one count of child endangerment, the first time a U.S. church leader has been convicted of such a charge.

Monsignor William Lynn, 61, was found guilty in June of one count of child endangerment, the first time a U.S. church leader has been convicted of such a charge.

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.

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.

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

Pruitt and other RAGA members sided with the U.S. Chamber on legal challenges targeting the EPA's endangerment finding and, more recently, the Clean Power Plan.

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.

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.»

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...

These assertions include: — Supposed «out of date» findings from the IPCC and USCCP reports — Supposed decline in global temperature (already debunked dozens of times)-- Supposed lack of endangerment from anthropogenic global warming imputed from past improvements in measures of U.S. health and welfare

The EPA endangerment finding was based on several major climate science reports, such as the IPCC report and the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

The suggestion that the scientifically based assessments carried out by the IPCC and the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which EPA used in reaching its greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding, should be set aside shows immense ignorance of the relationship between research, assessment of the state of scientific knowledge, and decision - making.

half of the lobbyist groups mentioned are legally challenging the threat of manmade climate change, with court petitions against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas endangerment finding:

EPA issued its endangerment finding because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled three years ago that greenhouse gas emissions constitute air pollution and that EPA therefore must determine whether that pollution threatens the health and welfare of Americans.

The cases included challenges to the endangerment finding and the CPP — both of which followed from the U.S. Supreme rulings.

These practices are clearly laid bare in several recent Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- petitions asking the EPA to reconsider its «Endangerment Finding» that anthropogenic greenhouse gases endanger our public health and welfare.

Below is one of the «Key Findings» from the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States produced by the U.S. Climate Change Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was used as a major support for the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency's «Endangerment Finding» that human carbon dioxide emissions are a threat to health and welfare.

Even a U.S. Chamber of Commerce senior official said that if the EPA re-opens the endangerment finding, «There's going to be hell to pay from, you know, soccer moms and soccer dads all throughout the country.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a «Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202 (a) of the Clean Air Act.»

A Remand of EPA's Endangerment Finding by the U.S. Supreme Court would be appropriate.

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.