EPA Tells Congress: Cap Carbon, Or We'll Do It For You

By Bill Scher

Created 04/17/2009 - 2:36pm

Summary:

After Congress in 1990 gave the EPA the authority to regulate air pollution, after the Supreme Court in 2007 told Bush's EPA they couldn't ignore greenhouse gas pollution that causes global warming, and after a full review of the scientific evidence, the EPA announced that greenhouse gases "threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations," [1] which means the EPA is obligated to act.