Sentences with phrase «endangerment findings took»
The 2009 EPA endangerment findings took into account the public health implications of a warming climate caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which include more deaths from heat - related illnesses, more serious (and potentially fatal) respiratory illnesses, and more people at risk from catastrophic flooding.
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«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.
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.
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.
«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.
One very unfortunate possibility is that EPA may take no action on reconsidering and revoking the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding (EF) until the CPP legal issues are resolved by the courts.
As a member of the large plaintiff group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.
The Koch - fueled Right has been fuming at Scott Pruitt for failing to take action on the endangerment finding earlier this year, and there are signs that he is bending to the pressure.