Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared carbon dioxide a danger to human health. Carbon dioxide has now been declared a pollutant.
According to the article:
"Under a Supreme Court ruling, the so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from power plants, factories and automobiles under the federal Clean Air Act.
"The EPA signaled last April that it was inclined to view heat-trapping pollution as a threat to public health and welfare and began to take public comments under a formal rulemaking. The action marked a reversal from the Bush administration, which had declined to aggressively pursue the issue."
This declaration by the EPA opens the door for a war on global warming without the consent or input of Congress. It takes Congress out of the equation and puts it solely in the hands of the EPA. The EPA can now begin to regulate all industry in this country that has any relationship to carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is the gas we exhale when we breathe, I don't think there are going to be too many industries that are going to escape the control of the EPA. If the EPA is allowed to continue unchecked, we will be quietly going down the road to becoming a third world country. Just for the record, trees absorb carbon dioxide. It's part of their growth process. To declare it a pollutant is ridiculous.
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