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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming." "A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are trying to convince the court that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate, as a matter of public health, the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from vehicles." "The states and more than a dozen environmental groups insist the 1970 law makes clear that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that is subject to regulation because its poses a threat to public health." http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...l-warming_x.htm |
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | GGGAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! OMG, the US Supreme COurt????????????? PLEASE find a reason to claim "lack of jurisdiction". I am hoping for, at the least, that this will fall into "discretionary" decisions solely at the executive branch's feet. |
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 3 | The EPA was organized to respond to and to resolve broad spectrum environmental problems. They, then, should be responsible for the regulation, control and adherence of our national greenhouse gas emission levels. They identify climate change on their website and specifically cite greenhouse gases as the cause. And while they recognize that some of these greenhouse gases are naturally occurring, they also recognize that some of these are emitted solely from human activity. The latter are the gases that they should be regulating. If they cannot be accountable to the public by their own initiative, their negligence should be reviewed by a higher authority. If it takes a lawsuit to initiate this review, that's fine by me. The Supreme Court must recognize that this may be a valid case or they wouldn't have agreed to hear it, no? |
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My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #9 Nominated 4 Times in 2 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 14 | The Environmental Protection Agency. Global Warming is an environmental issue. If only there were a way to connect the two. |
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Dec 1 2006, 06:41 PM) [snapback]356405[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 3 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Schmika @ Dec 1 2006, 10:53 PM) [snapback]356527[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(etyler88 @ Dec 4 2006, 09:15 AM) [snapback]357419[/snapback]</div> Quote:
"A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled in favor of the government in 2005. But last June, the Supreme Court decided to take up the case." "The ruling next year is expected to be one of the court's most important ever involving the environment." | |
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | If the supreme court rules that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, does that mean that we all have to stop breathing? Or will all have to start paying a "Breathing Tax"? What about all the animals in the world, how do we collect taxes from them? Or do we increase hunting quotas to draw down animal populations? If carbon dioxide emissions are dramatically decreased, what happens to plant life that depends on carbon dioxide to live? Who is representing the forests of the world in this lawsuit? I'm not sure that they would agree that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. |
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My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(toypri05 @ Dec 17 2006, 12:33 PM) [snapback]363404[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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