Thread: Ambient error ~ EPA's regulatory tentacles into every corner

Establishing a national ambient air quality standard, Spreading EPA's regulatory tentacles into every corner of the economy

Ambient error

By EPW Blog
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Link to Inhofe EPW Press Blog http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7spy2f

Establishing a national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for CO2 is feared possibly more than any other potential greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA). A CO2 NAAQS would twist the CAA into knots and spread EPA’s regulatory tentacles into every corner of the economy. And according to a recent report, there’s no avoiding it. http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-DP-09-50.pdf

EPA and some environmental activists say a GHG NAAQS won’t happen, because EPA possesses the legal flexibility to avoid it. EPA has discretion, they believe, to craft greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations in the most cost-effective and rational manner. But as Nathan Richardson of Resources for the Future argues in a December 2009 study, EPA “likely lacks much of this claimed flexibility, and will probably be forced by interconnections and statutory triggers built into the CAA to set national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)â€

Climate change panel goofed on its prediction on melting of Himalayan glaciers

RK Pachauri says he will not resign even if UN panel finds fault

By News on the Net
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New Delhi: IPCC chief R K Pachauri, who came in for sharp criticism after the climate change panel goofed on its prediction on melting of Himalayan glaciers, has said he will not step down even if a UN-constituted review committee finds fault with the procedures followed by it.

“Certainly not. But we will certainly implement any constructive recommendations that we get (from the UN committee). As matter of fact, I would be responsible for implementing the recommendations. How can I walk away from that?,â€