Watch the Economy Tank: EPA to Rule on Global Warming
This is it, this will be what destroys the American (and global) economy for decades to come.
EPA: Global Warming Threatens Public Health, Welfare
In December 2007 EPA submitted a written recommendation to the White House urging the Bush administration to allow EPA to state officially that global warming is a threat to human welfare. But senior White House officials refused to open the document and urged Johnson to reconsider, saying such a finding would trigger sweeping regulatory requirements under the 45-year-old Clean Air Act. An EPA analysis had found the move would cost utilities, automakers and others billions of dollars while also bringing benefits to other economic sectors.
EPA officials could not be reached immediately today for comment on the proposal.
Several congressional Democrats had urged EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson to move ahead with an endangerment finding on the grounds that it was scientifically warranted and would help push Congress to enact a national cap on greenhouse gases. Unlike President George W. Bush, President Obama backs such mandatory limits.
On Thursday Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, said, “There is no question that the law and the facts require an endangerment finding, and it should happen without further delay, and I believe it will.”
Let’s see now…higher taxes, 90% tax on “bonuses” over $125,000 per individual, and now the passed on cost of kowtowing to the environazis. Not to even mention the TRILLIONS in debt Obama has now strapped us with. I’d go have a drink but the Democrats have taxed it out of my reach.
Hot Air has more and Shopfloor.org adds:
This is simply an open door to regulation of all human activities by the federal government.
Exactly what the Democrats have in mind. Exactly.
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