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EPA Won't Act on Emissions This Year
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 10, 2008 10:32pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Saturday, July 12, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Instead of New Rules, More Comment Sought
By Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 11, 2008; Page A01
The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among senior federal officials that new regulation is appropriate now.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce today that it will seek months of further public comment on the threat posed by global warming to human health and welfare -- a matter that federal climate experts and international scientists have repeatedly said should be urgently addressed.
The Supreme Court, in a decision 15 months ago that startled the government, ordered the EPA to decide whether human health and welfare are being harmed by greenhouse gas pollution from cars, power plants and other sources, or to provide a good explanation for not doing so. But the administration has opted to postpone action instead, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Post.
To defer compliance with the Supreme Court's demand, the White House has walked a tortured policy path, editing its officials' congressional testimony, refusing to read documents prepared by career employees and approved by top appointees, requesting changes in computer models to lower estimates of the benefits of curbing carbon dioxide, and pushing narrowly drafted legislation on fuel-economy standards that officials said was meant to sap public interest in wider regulatory action. |
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