This whole democracy thing is just so inefficient. Why wrangle with recalcitrant Congressmen and ignorant voters when you can have a bureaucracy beholden to you make the rules you want? From the AP via Hot Air, EPA declares air a danger to human health
…The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people’s health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is prepared to contain global warming without congressional action if necessary. …
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.
Business groups have strongly argued against tackling global warming through the regulatory process of the Clean Air Act. Any such regulations are likely to spawn lawsuits and lengthy legal fights…
More at the link and from Michelle Malkin.
EPA Gives Obama “Global” Power…
With the E.P.A. announcement today that CO2 (the naturally occurring gas that every human being and mammal on the planet produces when they exhale) is a danger to human health, Obama has been given ultimate power to “fix the problem” of glo…
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