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BUREAUCRATIC AFFAIR * USA - EPA Delaying Action on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Post /Transport Topics -11 July 2008: -- The Environmental Protection Agency will not take steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the end of President Bush’s term, reported Friday... The action despite pressure a Supreme Court ruling last year ordering EPA to decide if human health and welfare was being harmed by greenhouse gases, the Post reported in a front-page story... EPA plans to announce Friday that it will seek months of further public comment on issue of global warming and greenhouse gases... Trucking companies said last year following the Supreme Court ruling that tighter regulation of greenhouse gases could raise costs to the trucking industry...
* Global warming controls rejected - EPA reverses gears, sidesteps greenhouse gas solutions
Washington,DC,USA -Associated Press/The Detroit News, by Dina Cappiello -July 12, 2008: -- The Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it would cripple the U.S. economy... In a 588-page federal notice, the Environmental Protection Agency made no finding on whether global warming poses a threat to people's health or welfare, reversing an earlier conclusion at the insistence of the White House and officially kicking any decision on a solution to the next president and Congress... The White House on Thursday rejected the EPA's suggestion three weeks earlier that the 1970 Clean Air Act can be both workable and effective for addressing global climate change. The EPA said Friday that law is "ill-suited" for dealing with global warming... "If our nation is truly serious about regulating greenhouse gases, the Clean Air Act is the wrong tool for the job", EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson told reporters. "It is really at the feet of Congress."... White House press secretary Dana Perino said that President Bush is committed to further reductions but that there is a "right way and a wrong way to deal with climate change."... The wrong way is "to sharply increase gasoline prices, home heating bills and the cost of energy for American businesses," she said. "The right way, as the president has proposed, is to invest in new technologies."... In a setback for Bush, the Supreme Court ruled last year that the government had the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant. Bush has consistently opposed doing that... In a May draft of Friday's notice, the EPA had put the benefits to society of further reducing greenhouse gases at $2 trillion... Friday's action caps months of often tense negotiations between EPA scientists and the White House over how to address global warming under the major federal air pollution law. It ended with the White House and other agencies citing "extraordinary circumstances" and refusing to review the draft forwarded in June by EPA scientists... The document released Friday is much more cautious than a determination made in December by the agency that found greenhouse gases endangered welfare, and it also appears to counteract findings of drafts released in May and June that found the Clean Air Act could be an effective tool for reducing greenhouse gases... "EPA's approach to this has been completely thrown out by the White House, which is only attempting to stall any kind of cleanup," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, an environmental advocacy group. "It sounds like the Bush administration is trying to ignore the Supreme Court and to pretend it doesn't exist."... Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Global Warming, called the administration's findings "the bureaucratic equivalent of saying that the dog ate your homework."...
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