Hooray! It looks like the EPA gets to make decisions based on science again after 8 years of wandering in the wilderness…
In today’s New York Times – EPA to Clear the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming. The E.P.A. said the science supporting its so-called endangerment finding was “compelling and overwhelming.”