I posted my take on the big environmental story of the day (EPA finds GHGs to be pollutants) today over at Critical/Ecological, so I won't repeat them here.
But I did want to post the response from Sen. James Inhofe. He is famous for being kind of crazy, and, well, not someone who puts much stock in the science of climate change ("Global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people...").
"Today’s action by the EPA is the beginning of a regulatory barrage that will destroy jobs, raise energy prices for consumers, and undermine America’s global competitiveness. It now appears EPA’s regulatory reach will find its way into schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and just about any activity that meets minimum thresholds in the Clean Air Act…It’s worth noting that the solution to this ‘glorious mess’ is not for Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation, which replaces one very bad approach with another. Congress should pass a simple, narrowly-targeted bill that stops EPA in its tracks."
I love the notion that EPA will regulate GHGs in a way that will inhibit assisted living facilities. As though the environmental crowd has been frothing at the mouth to get those polluting elderly care folks and their dastardly ways. It's bullshit, by the by, that such things will happen, but that is for another time.
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