Spring in a Step

EPA will request public comment on GHG regulation this spring

Posted at 2:06 PM on 27 Mar 2008

SCOTUS decreed that the U.S. EPA must decide whether the climate-change effects of carbon dioxide endanger public health, and, at long last, the agency is moving on that decision -- kinda. In a letter to U.S. lawmakers Thursday, chief Stephen Johnson wrote that the EPA is writing proposed rules for regulation of CO₂ emissions "from stationary and mobile sources" and will sometime this spring "present and request comment on the best available science including specific and quantifiable effects of greenhouse gases relevant to making an endangerment finding." We can hardly wait.

sources: Associated Press, Reuters

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