Here Comes Carbon Dioxide Regulation
NYT: E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide.
I remember when this all started. It’s actually quite silly:
The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding.
Would that be the carbon dioxide that animals exhale and plants breathe? They need a study to determine whether a building block of life is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare?
I’m sure the EPA will reach whatever conclusion the politics of its mandate demands.
Our only hope is that these new regulations would be even more onerous in a depressed economy than in a good one, so they won’t be terribly popular with most thinking people – and crafty politicians – right now.
