Thursday, February 19, 2009

!!! NYT: E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/science/earth/19epa.html?ref=politics

"If the environmental agency determines that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act, it would set off one of the most extensive regulatory rule makings in history. Ms. Jackson knows that she would be stepping into a minefield of Congressional and industry opposition and said that she was trying to devise a program that allayed these worries.

"We are poised to be specific on what we regulate and on what schedule," Ms. Jackson said. "We don't want people to spin that into a doomsday scenario." "