States Seek EPA Action on Greenhouse Gases

[Shallah Kali]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050409/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/greenhouse_gases_2

A coalition of 12 states and several cities asked a federal appeals court Friday to make the Environmental Protection Agency reconsider its decision not to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases as air pollutants.

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In a courtroom packed with auto industry representatives, environmentalists and government employees, three justices of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sternly questioned lawyers for the states and the EPA. The judges wondered how far the government should go in the face of scientific uncertainty over global warming.

"We can't even tell what the weather's going to be two weeks from now, but these models tell us what the climate is going to be like 100 years from now," said Judge A. Raymond Randolph, whose questioning appeared to favor the EPA's position.

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They said the EPA acknowledged in testimony to Congress in 1998, 1999 and 2000 that the Clean Air Act gives the agency power to regulate pollution that causes global warming. Other states and cities also have tried to force federal regulation of greenhouse gases.

[Matriot]

1. What happened was

the Bushie ran EPA came out with the opinion that carbon dioxide is no longer a "pollutant". Funny it was considered a pollutant before Bush, why not now?

[mom cat]

2. Welcome to DU! I love your screen name. It is a great concept that

values respect for the life affirming matriarchy instead of the death dealing patriarchy. Heres to the Motherland: Earth! May she live in peace and heal from her wounds.
:hi:

[dbt]

4. Roger that, mom cat, and welcome Matriot!

"Men f*ck up everything they get their hands on." -dbt, 1983

[Matriot]

5. Thanks for the welcome Mom Cat

:toast:

[SoCalDem]

3. Ironic too, that the pollutants from 25 years ago

"might" be causing the cancers we are suffering today...just at the same time that most cannot afford the health care necessary to deal with them:(

The Double whammy.. Perhaps this is another reason the government has foought tooth and nail against a national health care system.. (they know the damage that was caused, and what the result might be)