EPA to everyone: Nah nah nah, you can't make me
Despite a Supreme Court decision and a near-miss on a contempt of Congress citation, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to thumb its nose at, oh, everyone by continuing to delay rule-making on greenhouse gas emissions.The SCOTUS decision, from April 2007, ruled that the EPA improperly declined to regulate pollutants that contribute to climate change.
Rather than following the decision, or heeding repeated warning from Congress (notably the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming), Administrator Stephen Johnson issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR). In this case, the issuance amounts to the EPA fiddling while Rome burns.
And as if that weren't enough, the ANPR – some 580 pages – is accompanied by numerous comments urging the government to NOT regulation carbon dioxide and other gases via the Clean Air Act.
A Washington Post editorial got it right when they re-christened the EPA the "Emitters Protection Agency" and called on presumptive nominees John McCain and Barack Obama to "recognize climate change as a threat to the nation's security and way of life."
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