<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Bush administration decides to run out the clock on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by GreenMom http://www.grist.org/article/countdown-to-crawford/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:48:01 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/countdown-to-crawford/1 Well....

Steven Johnson is and has always been a water boy for the Administration. The view of him from the EPA trenches, where I reside, is pretty dismal.  The Administration's inaction on global warming, which he enables, is a travesty.

That said, note the other bit of relevant news today, that the D.C. circuit struck down the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which set up a trading program for SO2 and NOx across the middle and eastern half of the country.  I haven't read the decision yet, but I believe the reasoning is that a trading program not specifically called-for in the Clean Air Act is a stretch of the Act's mandate (good arguments have been made to the contrary, but that's where we stand right now).

I think this is going to give additional incentive to the next Administration (Obama, god willing) to push for comprehensive multi-pollutant legislation, covering CO2 plus SO2 and NOx and particulates.  Many utilities have already invested in scrubbers and the like in order to comply with CAIR.  They have an incentive to want a level national playing field, and in fact some of them intervened in the CAIR lawsuit on EPA's behalf.

I dearly hope that Congress will be up to the task next year.

]]> Well....

Steven Johnson is and has always been a water boy for the Administration. The view of him from the EPA trenches, where I reside, is pretty dismal.  The Administration's inaction on global warming, which he enables, is a travesty.

That said, note the other bit of relevant news today, that the D.C. circuit struck down the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which set up a trading program for SO2 and NOx across the middle and eastern half of the country.  I haven't read the decision yet, but I believe the reasoning is that a trading program not specifically called-for in the Clean Air Act is a stretch of the Act's mandate (good arguments have been made to the contrary, but that's where we stand right now).

I think this is going to give additional incentive to the next Administration (Obama, god willing) to push for comprehensive multi-pollutant legislation, covering CO2 plus SO2 and NOx and particulates.  Many utilities have already invested in scrubbers and the like in order to comply with CAIR.  They have an incentive to want a level national playing field, and in fact some of them intervened in the CAIR lawsuit on EPA's behalf.

I dearly hope that Congress will be up to the task next year.

]]> Comment #2 by christophersj http://www.grist.org/article/countdown-to-crawford/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:12:12 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/countdown-to-crawford/2 The most important story on Grist

I think this is the biggest story of the week of any kind.  It is a formal end to eight years of lies and purposeful deceit in actions.

For the first decade of the 2000's, they won.  Hands down.

This is the final signature on the divorce papers.  Yesterday there was the slightest chance of some regulation from somewhere, today it is officially finished until 2009.

What a ride.

]]> The most important story on Grist

I think this is the biggest story of the week of any kind.  It is a formal end to eight years of lies and purposeful deceit in actions.

For the first decade of the 2000's, they won.  Hands down.

This is the final signature on the divorce papers.  Yesterday there was the slightest chance of some regulation from somewhere, today it is officially finished until 2009.

What a ride.

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