Bush's EPA Chief Urged Regulating Carbon Emissions in 2008, Letter Shows

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Source: Bloomberg

Former President George W. Bush’s top environmental regulator urged him in 2008 to limit greenhouse- gas emissions blamed for climate change, according to a letter released by a Democratic lawmaker.

Stephen Johnson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, told Bush he was obligated to declare gases from power plants, cars and other sources a danger to the public, according to the Jan. 31, 2008, letter released today by Representative Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Bush’s EPA chief wrote that “the latest climate change science doesn’t permit” the administration to declare that carbon isn’t a threat or that more research is needed.

Waxman released the letter as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson prepared to testify tomorrow before a House energy panel hearing examining President Barack Obama’s decision to use the EPA to impose rules on carbon emissions. Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, the committee chairman, is seeking to strip the EPA of the power to regulate greenhouse gases and said he doubts human activity is causing global warming.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-08/bush-s-epa-chief-urged-regulating-carbon-emissions-in-2008-letter-shows.html

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1. "Ain't no megaprofits in that for us." - RepubliCorp, Inc.

"Screw all that enviro shit. If it don't make MegaBucks for RepubliCorp and our AWOL Stooge-in-Chief and Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R - Halliburton), there is no freakin way we would ever have done the responsible or honorable thing. Sneer."

- RepubliCorp, Inc.