"when the Supreme Court ruled, in Massachusetts v. EPA, that the agency should determine whether greenhouse gases threaten our health. The Bush administration refused to use this authority, but when Obama took office he allowed the EPA to do its job again.
This past December the EPA published a science-based "endangerment finding," which found that CO2 and five other greenhouse gases are, in fact, dangerous to human life. Once the EPA issues an endangerment finding, it is legally bound to promulgate regulations to address the problem; the first of these were the vehicle emissions reductions announced on April 1."
The Supreme Court, of which I am still not a member, did not ask the cost of saving our environment; rather, they ordered the EPA to protect us.
If you don't like political vacuums, complain to the R's doing the Larry Craig Stall. In the meantime, the EPA is doing its job, for the first time in a long time.
Pollute or go broke? Go broke. My grandkids don't own stock in CO2 producers, , but they will "own" the world in 50 years. |
