Is CO2 a Pollutant and Does EPA Have the Power to Regulate It?: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs of the Committee on Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Energy and Evironment [sic] of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, October 6, 1999U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 187 pages |
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... asked all of the subcommittees of the Committee on Government Reform to do is to swear in our witnesses . So , if all of you would please rise . Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you will give today is the truth , the whole truth ...
... asked all of the subcommittees of the Committee on Government Reform to do is to swear in our witnesses . So , if all of you would please rise . Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you will give today is the truth , the whole truth ...
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... asked Administrator Brown- er about reports that EPA claimed it had authority to regulate emissions of pollutants of concern from electric utilities , including carbon dioxide . The Administrator replied that the Clean Air Act provides ...
... asked Administrator Brown- er about reports that EPA claimed it had authority to regulate emissions of pollutants of concern from electric utilities , including carbon dioxide . The Administrator replied that the Clean Air Act provides ...
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... asked , to this goal ? I would just point out the second finding of the EPA memo , that existing authority does not easily lend itself to a cost - effective mechanism , to impose a cap and trade program , and the administration is ...
... asked , to this goal ? I would just point out the second finding of the EPA memo , that existing authority does not easily lend itself to a cost - effective mechanism , to impose a cap and trade program , and the administration is ...
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... asked the Administrator whether she believed that EPA had authority to regulate emissions of pollutants of concern from electric utilities , including CO2 . She replied that the Clean Air Act provides such authority , and agreed to ...
... asked the Administrator whether she believed that EPA had authority to regulate emissions of pollutants of concern from electric utilities , including CO2 . She replied that the Clean Air Act provides such authority , and agreed to ...
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... asked whether you agreed with the statement , and in particular , whether you thought that the Clean Air Act allows EPA to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide . You agreed with the statement that the Clean Air Act grants EPA broad ...
... asked whether you agreed with the statement , and in particular , whether you thought that the Clean Air Act allows EPA to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide . You agreed with the statement that the Clean Air Act grants EPA broad ...
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Page 137 - Any national secondary ambient air quality standard prescribed, under subsection (a) shall specify a level of air quality the attainment and maintenance of which in the judgment of the Administrator, based on such criteria, is requisite to protect the public welfare from any known or anticipated adverse effects associated with the presence of such air pollutant in the ambient air.
Page 134 - The power of an administrative agency to administer a congressionally created . . . program necessarily requires the formulation of policy and the making of rules to fill any gap left, implicitly or explicitly, by Congress.
Page 63 - air pollutant' means an air pollution agent or combination of such agents. "(h) All language referring to effects on welfare includes, but is not limited to, effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, manmade materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate, damage to and deterioration of property, and hazards to transportation, as well as effects on economic values and on personal comfort and well-being.
Page 132 - David M. Mclntosh Chairman, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs Committee on Government Reform US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515-6143 Dear Mr.
Page 22 - municipality" means a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, or other public body created by or pursuant to State law. (g) The term "air pollutant" means any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical, biological, radioactive (including source material, special nuclear material, and byproduct material) substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.
Page 33 - ... cause or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health or welfare but for which standards have not been prescribed under subsection (a).
Page 18 - Under the act, adverse effects on public welfare are defined as adverse effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, manmade materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate; damage to and deterioration of property; hazards to transportation; or adverse effects on economic values and on personal comfort and well-being.
Page 18 - hazardous air pollutant" means an air pollutant to which no ambient air quality standard is applicable and which in the judgment of the Administrator causes, or contributes to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness.
Page 37 - In our anxiety to effectuate the congressional purpose of protecting the public, we must take care not to extend the scope of the statute beyond the point where Congress indicated it would stop.