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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(April 26) -- When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened this weekend to pull back his support of a global warming bill he co-authored -- along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. -- it looked as though the once-dead cap-and-trade bill could be dead again. That might be just as well. Unlike the previous cap-and-trade bills, the new bill, based on what's been reported by Mother Jones, has all kinds of new goodies for utility companies, oil companies and other corporate interests to gain their support. Indeed, if you can think of a big special interest group that would ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce today that it will not issue new regulations for greenhouse gas em missions this year, delaying action on the issue until the next Administration takes office. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act, or provide a good reason for not regulating it. The EPA argued that it did not have the authority under the act to regulate carbon dioxide partly because the gas is a ubiquitous substance, and not simply a product of emissions from factories and power plants.The EPA denied that ...
After receiving Pope Benedict XVI at the White House today, President Bush will get back to the business of state, announcing a new initiative on greenhouse gas emissions. The Administration will propose a new set of reduction targets for power plants to be met by 2025, in hopes of forestalling future regulatory action by Congress and the next Administration. Today's announcement seeks to begin a process of putting the nation on a path to regulating emissions in what the White House calls a "realistic" way. Whoever is elected president, Republican John McCain or Democrats Barack Obama or ...
The Environmental Protection Agency ruled that a consortium of seventeen states including California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut could not issue their own regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from cars. The EPA said that it believed that a single national standard would be preferable to individual and perhaps differing state limits. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said that such a move by the states would be preempted by any future Federal rule anyway, and would render portions of the energy bill just passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush ...
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