Bush faces legal action over global warming
The UK’s Independent is telling us Bush faces legal action over global warming.
A number of environmental groups have joined with a dozen US states and several cities to try to force the government to make the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulate carbon emissions under the framework of the Clean Air Extension Act. This legislation, passed by Richard Nixon’s administration in 1970, requires the EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from exposure to airborne contaminants.
Carbon dioxide is one of the main greenhouse gases pumping into the atmosphere that a broad majority of scientists believe are responsible for raising the planet’s temperature. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that most of the planet’s warming over the past 50 years has been the result of human activity.
The US, with 5 per cent of the world’s population, is responsible for 25 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 37 per cent of the world’s vehicles.
Its great to see the courts being used for good instead of evil. Let’s hope, for all our sakes, that they make the right decision. — DS
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