Sentences with phrase «endangerment finding]»

Several organizations are petitioning Obama's EPA to reconsider its December 2009 endangerment finding regarding greenhouse gases.

«In proposing endangerment without attaching regulations, the EPA recognizes that the framework of the Clean Air Act poses a unique set of legal and, ultimately, economic problems.»

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.

«It seems clear to me that the administration will do what they can to limit the damage of an endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act,» he said, pointing to Obama's recent comments at a press conference that concerns about impacts on consumers should be taken into account in cutting emissions.

In his two years as attorney general, Cuccinelli petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its «endangerment finding» that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health.

«The rest of the Act, however, does not — and a final endangerment finding will surely spur litigation to shoehorn all emitters, not just motor vehicles, into a wide range of Clean Air Act programs.

«On December 15, 2009 — the very day that EPA announced the Endangerment Finding — the Russian Institute of Economic Analysis («IEA») reported that CRU probably tampered with Russian climate data and that the Russian meteorological station data do not support human - caused global warming.

I would define myself as favouring camp 3 and wholeheartedly support the move off fossil fuels, but I do not favour alarm - ism as in camp 4 (although can sympathise with all other camps) except views based on profit at the endangerment to humans and co species health, safety and well being.

The proposed endangerment finding poses an endangerment to the American economy and to every American family.

The Obama EPA's infamous «Endangerment Finding» declared that carbon dioxide and methane from hydrocarbons cause global warming and climate change that pose imminent dangers to the health and wellbeing of every American.

Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, unpublished report prepared for the US Environmental Protection Agency but not representing the Agency's views, final version dated March 16, 2009.

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.

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.

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The endangerment finding increases the pressure on Congress to pass a climate bill, said Tim Telleen - Lawton of Environment America.

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.

«This has nothing to do with the science that justifies the endangerment finding and everything to do with politics,» Trenberth said, adding that the IG's criticisms focused only on process and not the quality of science EPA is using.

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.

It's a commentary on the House GOP's bizarre attempt to legislate away the EPA's endangerment finding (as if you can legislate physics), and Congress's dismal climate hearings:

These assessments provide rigorous scientific support for the endangerment determination.

The EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding has identified carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant carrying significant risks to human health and the environment.

Therefore, this rule is fatally flawed or the endangerment finding is fatally flawed.

«Once endangerment is found, EPA has a mandatory duty to regulate.»

Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.

The process matters, but the science matters more and in this endangerment finding, the science is accurate.

The Obama EPA made the endangerment finding in 2009.

As long as the Endangerment Finding stands, decarbonization schemes will be on the table.

THE US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday issued its much anticipated «Endangerment Finding» which makes six gases — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride — officially recognised as a danger to the public.

the [endangerment finding] legislation is fundamentally anti-science, just as the rhetoric that supports it is grounded in wilful ignorance.

The «final» Endangerment Finding came on December 7, 2009, just in time to provide the United States credibility at the then - starting Copenhagen Conference, a United Nations affair at which a replacement to the failed Kyoto Protocol was to be enshrined.

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.

While the sitting Bush administration was reluctant to do this, President Obama's EPA made the «preliminary» finding of endangerment a mere 94 days after his inauguration.

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.»

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.»

«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 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].

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

The Endangerment Technical Support Document provides evidence that the U.S. and the rest of the world are experiencing effects from climate change now.

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.

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 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.

Thanks for all you are doing to prevent mass biodiversity loss and irreversible environmental degradation, to preserve the Earth from wanton dissipation, and to protect the human family from reckless endangerment.

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

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.

Cecil police cited him for criminal mischief, intentionally damaging property, negligence and reckless endangerment.

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.»

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

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.

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

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.