<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Offsets: Pissing the earth away]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Ken Ward http://www.grist.org/article/offsets-pissing-the-earth-away/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:41:02 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/offsets-pissing-the-earth-away/1 This is as succint an analysis of why the bill I recently heard someone call "Whacky Marksman" is a sham that I've seen. Great job Gar, and I'm glad you pointed out the idiocy of trading away immediate power to regulate emissions for a dubious scheme down the line. By the way, my friend Bill  Wolfe, who heads up the NJ Chapter of Public Employees for Environmental Responsiblity, says that  Lisa Jackson played a simlar game before in NJ...

"I watched Jackson do the same thing in NJ. In 2004, NJ DEP (under Brad Campbell) adopted a regulatory finding - technically a definition - of GHG as "air contaminant" (the legal equivalent of "pollutant" under federal CAA) under state air law. This gave DEP a regulatory basis to control GHG emissions. Not only did the NJDEP subsequently do absolutely nothing with this authority for 4 years, but it actually was legally stripped - as the NJ enviro's applauded - by the NJ Global Warming Response Act. DEP's powers to regulate emissions were explicitly neutered and limited to monitoring and reporting."

]]> This is as succint an analysis of why the bill I recently heard someone call "Whacky Marksman" is a sham that I've seen. Great job Gar, and I'm glad you pointed out the idiocy of trading away immediate power to regulate emissions for a dubious scheme down the line. By the way, my friend Bill  Wolfe, who heads up the NJ Chapter of Public Employees for Environmental Responsiblity, says that  Lisa Jackson played a simlar game before in NJ...

"I watched Jackson do the same thing in NJ. In 2004, NJ DEP (under Brad Campbell) adopted a regulatory finding - technically a definition - of GHG as "air contaminant" (the legal equivalent of "pollutant" under federal CAA) under state air law. This gave DEP a regulatory basis to control GHG emissions. Not only did the NJDEP subsequently do absolutely nothing with this authority for 4 years, but it actually was legally stripped - as the NJ enviro's applauded - by the NJ Global Warming Response Act. DEP's powers to regulate emissions were explicitly neutered and limited to monitoring and reporting."

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