PA’s Greenhouse Gas Declaration May Pressure U.S. Lawmakers

Source: Bloomberg

PA’s Greenhouse Gas Declaration May Pressure U.S. Lawmakers
By Jim O’Connell and Catherine Dodge

March 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed declaration that greenhouse gases pose a health danger may increase pressure on Congress to pass new limits on emissions from coal-fired power plants and factories.

White House approval of the finding, sent to the administration yesterday, would clear the way for the EPA to impose the first limits on carbon dioxide emissions from carmakers such as General Motors Corp., utilities such as American Electric Power Co., along with steelmakers and other manufacturers.

Still, President Barack Obama and business groups prefer that Congress, not the EPA, develop any new rules on emissions that contribute to global warming.

“The president has made quite clear on this that the way to deal with greenhouse gases is to work with Congress in order to put together a plan that deals with this and creates a market for renewable energy,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said yesterday.

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We Must make those standards a part of any trade pacts such as NAFTA or GATT or ????? We can not let all of our manufacturing base move to other countries because environmental standards are so much less there.

China, not so much.