The EPA has set in motion the process that will regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. The agency has made a finding that CO2 may endanger public health or welfare. There will be a public comment period on this finding. This is an attempt to force Congress to pass cap and trade legislation (and to force opponents to stop fighting cap and trade) or else deal with a convoluted regulatory mess:
“The best solution, and I believe this in my heart, is to work with
Congress to form and pass comprehensive legislation to deal with
climate change,” Jackson [EPA Director] said. ” We hope to avert a regulatory thicket
where governments and businesses spend an inordinate amount of time
fighting. We are not looking for a doomsday solution.”
The impact of this will have a devastating impact on the economy. According to former EPA General Counsel Roger Martella:
“The proposal, once finalized, will give EPA far more responsibility
than addressing climate change. It effectively will assign EPA broad
authority over the use and control of energy, in turn authorizing it to
regulate virtually every sector of the economy.”
We officially now have turned the reins over to the environmental extremists.
Businesses (the ethical ones fighting cap and trade) and opponents need to keep fighting cap and trade and let the EPA do whatever it wants–then take them to court and push this off for years.
