EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Congressional action on climate change may be the preferred method for mitigating the impact of global warming and moving the United States to a clean energy economy, but the Environmental Protection Agency just turned up the pressure to act. Administrator Lisa Jaskson just announced that carbon dioxide is among six greenhouse gases that “contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare.”
She added: “This pollution problem has a solution – one that will create millions of green jobs and end our country’s dependence on foreign oil.”
The announcement opens a 60-day comment period before the EPA would move to create formal regulations, which would potentially have to cover individual sectors of the economy, according to the Washington Post.
As Chris Mooney argued earlier this week, EPA regulation is one of three critical knobs the administration can turn in sync to get comprehensive climate legislation in place this year that generates jobs, prevents pollution, and makes the country more competative.
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