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White House tries to keep EPA from showing how greenhouse gases could be regulated 2

The White House is trying to block the U.S. EPA from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases, reports The Wall Street Journal. The draft document, a formal response to a Supreme Court decision that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can thus be regulated under the Clean Air Act, must be OK'd by the White House before the EPA can release it. But White House officials have asked that the EPA delete references to greenhouse-gas emissions endangering public welfare (which would legally allow them to be regulated); how they could be regulated (the document suggests a cap-and-trade system similar to those in place for acid rain and mercury); and the cost of such regulation (according to the document, "The net benefit to society could be in excess of $2 trillion."). In effect, says one source, White House officials want the document to instead demonstrate that "the Clean Air Act is broken and can't be used to regulate emissions."

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  1. catman Posted 7:28 am
    30 Jun 2008

    Georgia power plantGeorgia power plant was put on hold for regulators to put limits on carbon dioxide production.  Here's how it played in Texas.
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/5864294.h ...

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  2. JohnS Posted 8:32 am
    01 Jul 2008

    EPA & clean airIf the clean air act is broken -so is the tax act and federal employees should NOT be paid out of our taxes until there job performance is evaluated by an unrelated out side source that is sworn to honesty and non bribery, in other words no polytix(little blood sucking insects)involved!!They are supposed to protect OUR interest and HEALTH of the nation

    WE all should take up a new slogan "do it NOW" it seems that the big corporates get time up the nose while the little guy gets it in the neck. The corporates (You know who starts with EX)got How many YEARS to clean up the OIL spill in NEW YORK CITY and it isn't done as yet. GEE if I took an extra 20 min to bring one of the vip's his coffee I would get fired not a reprimand or a smile...  Corporations Have no conception that if enough people die SO DO THEY. As big as they are they can not exist with out us>>>

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