EPA Won't Specify Global Warming Plans

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

EPA Won't Specify Global Warming Plans

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

(04-24) 12:18 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency repeatedly refused to say
Tuesday how soon he will comply with a Supreme Court ruling and decide
whether to regulate carbon dioxide, the leading gas linked to global warming.

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, appearing before the Senate Environment
and Public Works Committee, was asked repeatedly to provide a timetable for
responding to the April 2 Supreme Court decisions. The court said the Clean
Air Act makes clear the agency must regulate carbon dioxide if it's found that
it endangers public health.

The legal argument has been settled and "now there's is an unmistakable
green light to take action now," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the
committee's chairman, told Johnson: "There is no excuse for delay."

But Johnson called the court's ruling complex and said he did not want to be
tied to a specific timetable.

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/24/national/w112410D14.DTL

[DixieBlue]

1. How very Orwellian.

The Environmental Protection Agency refusing to answer questions on how it will protect the environment.

I would laugh if it weren't so sad.

[sutz12]

9. Well, how can you expect the EPA to.....you know....protect the environment? nt

[PSPS]

2. Johnson is just another bush-crony-anti-regulation appointee

These people should all be swinging from lamp posts.

[va4wilderness]

3. "Said he did not want to be tied to a specific timetable" hmmm

Let's just fritter our way thru another disaster.

[Kolesar]

4. Veto any bill with a timetable--else the terrorists will know when to come through the atmosphere

:sigh:

[Shallah Kali]

5. yep publishing the plan would give aid and comfort to the enemy.

We don't want Global Warming to get the drop on us!

[Javaman]

8. I fear another "heck of a job" on the horizon. :( nt

[maddezmom]

6. the new *admin meme...no specific timetable

K&R

[truthisfreedom]

7. "Don't bother us. We're busy politicizing every single branch of government."

"We don't have time for the facts, and science be damned. And by the way, we are the law. All judges who disagree are liberal activists."

[sutz12]

10. If we publish a timetable, the sun will know when to start cooling down. nt