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To: stockman_scott who wrote (188129)	3/13/2010 1:58:51 AM
From: SiouxPal	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361075

Ohio State wins. Gators and Seminoles go down. UNLV wins.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (188129)	3/13/2010 2:01:51 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361075

Not even a nice try. Try telling that to the Supes. EPA Chief to Testify on Hill as Dissent Over Carbon Rules Grows By Simon Lomax and Kim Chipman March 3 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s top environmental regulator will testify before Congress today amid growing opposition to her agency’s proposed limits on the pollution linked to climate change. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will face lawmakers a day after Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia called for a two-year delay on greenhouse-gas regulations and top House Republicans demanded they be stopped altogether. “The last thing we need in this struggling economy is new regulations that amount to a new tax on energy, a tax that’s going to hit every middle-class family and small-business owner,” House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio said yesterday at a news conference in Washington. “This new effort by the EPA needs to be shut down,” he said. Boehner is one of more than 80 supporters of a resolution offered by top House Republicans yesterday that would overturn the EPA’s December finding that greenhouse gases pose a danger and should be regulated. The measure is among a growing number of proposals to stop or delay direct action by the agency to control carbon-dioxide pollution, as legislation to impose caps on emissions remains stalled in Congress. Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who introduced the resolution, said yesterday that he expects some Democrats to join the effort. More than 40 Democrats last year voted against a House measure to cap carbon pollution. Jackson is scheduled to appear at a hearing of a Senate Appropriations Committee panel on the environment. ‘One Year More’ The Republican measure mirrors efforts in the Senate and follows the introduction of legislation by Democratic Representatives Ike Skelton of Missouri and Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Republican Representative Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri. Rockefeller of West Virginia, a coal-producing state, told reporters yesterday that his legislation would give industrial polluters “one year more” to prepare for the regulations than the EPA has proposed. Jackson, the agency’s administrator, said Feb. 22 that greenhouse-gas regulations for industry would start in 2011. Rockefeller said he plans to introduce his bill this week. Barton’s resolution asks House members “to deny the overwhelming science that greenhouse-gas pollution is a real and serious threat to the health and welfare of our citizens,” EPA spokeswoman Adora Andy said yesterday in a statement. “It disregards the Supreme Court decision that directed us to act and ignores the evidence before our own eyes.” The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA didn’t have to wait for Congress to write new greenhouse-gas laws and could use the existing Clean Air Act to impose limits on the emissions. ‘Invented’ Science Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, told reporters yesterday that the EPA needs to go back and study the science of climate change because the prior “underlying science” used to make determinations about climate change turned out to be “invented, not measured.” “We need to make sure that the baseline figures are correct,” Issa said. Representative James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the senior Republican on the House global warming committee, said yesterday that the biggest reason to oppose EPA action is prevention of a “back-door tax on energy that will devastate our already frail economy.” U.S. auto dealers also have joined the opposition, urging Congress to block the EPA from enforcing carbon-emission limits on new cars and trucks. Vehicle Agreement The agency’s proposed vehicle limits, which would be enforced through higher fuel-economy standards, are “duplicative and wasteful,” the McLean, Virginia-based National Automobile Dealers Association said in a March 1 letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who also is trying to block the EPA from acting. The higher fuel-economy standards are the result of an agreement reached in May between the Obama administration, automobile manufacturers and the state of California, which had proposed its own vehicle standards. The Alliance for Automobile Manufacturers, which represents Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. and other companies that make cars, remains committed to the EPA’s emission standards and “we fully expect them to be implemented,” Charles Territo, a spokesman for the organization, said in an e-mailed statement. Obama has said legislation by Congress is the preferred route to curb emissions and remake U.S. energy policy. The president will move ahead with EPA rules should Congress fail to act, Carol Browner, Obama’s top adviser on energy and the environment, said last week. Kerry, Graham, Lieberman An energy and climate-change bill passed the House last year. A similar measure stalled in the Senate. Senators John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, are working to develop compromise legislation. The legislation will be ready “in a matter of weeks, not months,” Graham told reporters yesterday. Lieberman said the group is still consulting with other senators and interest groups about what needs to be in the bill to win their support. The EPA’s “endangerment” finding on greenhouse gases was announced in December and clears the path for the agency to control greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, factories and other sources. To contact the reporters on this story: Kim Chipman in Washington at KChipman@bloomberg.net; Simon Lomax in Washington at slomax@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: March 3, 2010 00:00 EST bloomberg.com