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US to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

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The US government has declared that greenhouse gases threaten human health.

The move could allow the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to order cuts in emissions without the approval of Congress.

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency was now "authorised and obligated to make reasonable efforts" to cut greenhouse gases.

The news came as global climate talks got under way in Copenhagen aimed at forging a deal on major emissions cuts.

Ms Jackson said that the scientific evidence surrounding climate change clearly showed that greenhouse gases "threaten the public health and welfare of the American people".

She said the EPA's so-called endangerment finding would "cement 2009's place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution".

Reports suggest the announcement, which had been in the pipeline for months, was timed to add weight to US President Barack Obama's position at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, allowing him to argue that the US is taking action to combat global warming.

Legislative hurdles

The US House of Representatives passed a bill in June that would cap greenhouse gas emissions and establish a national carbon trading scheme.

But progress of a similar bill through the Senate is not likely before March at the earliest.

In April this year, the EPA decided that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases could endanger human health and well-being.

The decision was then sent out to public consultation, with people given 60 days - until 23 June - to respond.

An EPA spokeswoman told the BBC that the agency had received more than 300,000 comments and had been working on its response since.

Under a Supreme Court ruling, the EPA's "endangerment finding" was needed to allow the agency to regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released by vehicles, power plants and factories under the federal Clean Air Act.

BBC News - US to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
 
Another good reason to get rid of Obama and everyone who backs him in Congress.

This Green house gas threat is another HOAX These gases make the trees and flowers grow and trees create the oxygen we need to breath.

Science says even the asinine Cap and Trade taxes will have no appreciable effect on anything in 50 years, so time to throw the dumb ass bums out, because they all about tax and control.
 
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Stop breathing or you will be subject to arrest.
 
Another baby-step towards complete government control.
 
Stop breathing or you will be subject to arrest.
Its only a matter of time before you are required to have and use a personal CO2 scrubber.

You'll have to buy one at your own cost, and, through a federal subsidy paid for by a new fedral tax, supply them to those who cannot afford them.
 
I cannot think of a better ponzi scheme to replace the current one with the fed, these people are brilliant, evil, but genius all the same!:doh
 
Stop farting!
 
Kill all the vegetarians. Cause the less cows the better
 
So much for unemployment going down.
 
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Stop breathing or you will be subject to arrest.

Punk, I just put this joke in another thread without seeing this.
 
Kill all the vegetarians. Cause the less cows the better

Everytime a plant is killed and eaten, that's one less plant to metabolize the noxious poison!
 
Another baby-step towards complete government control.
I don't even think Hitler and Stalin were this bad. Now that we've got the dictators out of the way, let the debate begin. :lol:
 
Everytime a plant is killed and eaten, that's one less plant to metabolize the noxious poison!
Eat meat, reduce CO2 build up.
 
Can't pass cap and tax so he does an end around congress. He has to do this quickly before the IPCC is shown for the fraud most of us know it is.
 
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