The EPA is talking back to everyone who is trying to make their climate change and global warming rules nothing more than a twinkle in the environmental eye-

“I'm not in a position where I'm going to stand here and support the idea of EPA not being able to use the Clean Air Act,” said Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator.

I’ve written about this before and continue to think it is ludicrous- Congress is aggressively trying to restrict the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Again: Congress is trying to stop the

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

From REGULATING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

With the CLEAN AIR ACT.

Those three things are made for each other. They all exist. And our elected representatives are working like crazy to make sure they don’t have anything to do with each other. Jackson (and I) feel that the rules, which are set to take effect next year, will increase the demand for clean energy. OF COURSE they will lessen the demand for GHG-producing energy. That is the POINT of the rules.

Jackson is pushing legislators to work to do something about climate change- not work against the rules. Unfortunately, we all know, she is fighting a losing battle. Congress and politics in general is controlled by money, and the people with the money are the GHG-emitting power companies and their friends, not the new star-up green entrepreneurs. So who has the ear of Congress? Big business and fossil fuel industry. And who will the folks in Congress turn to, out of necessity, for their money in the next election? Big business and the fossil fuel industry.

A BIPARTISAN bill, seeing support from coal-state Democrats, led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va. introduced legislation to block the EPA rules for two years. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), wants to REVERSE the EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases jeopardize the public health and welfare.

Are you serious, Lisa?

Jackson has argued that the Clean Air Act “can be used sensibly, with good economic result and in a way that helps move things along,” while Congress works out what to do about climate change in general.

This is getting ridiculous. The Copenhagen Accord is non-binding. We want to push back the EPA rules. It’s all politics designed to delay any kind of real admission of or action on climate change. It’s like a gigantic, worldwide filibuster against doing anything substantive about climate change or global warming. Now, let’s be frank: Something is up with the world. The way we create and use energy is not natural, and it is destructive in many ways. Most of them visible and obvious. Part of why I think climate change is so real is that every other form of pollution that is visible is so obviously toxic. We destroy land, water and people with the processes and productions necessary to create and utilize fossil fuel energy. Why wouldn’t it destroy the air as well?

What are we going to do about it?

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