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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... problem of global warming . The attempt to regulate CO2 through the NAAQS pro- gram would appear to be an absurd and futile exercise . This sug- gests that Congress , when it enacted the program , never intended EPA to regulate CO2 ...
... problem of global warming . The attempt to regulate CO2 through the NAAQS pro- gram would appear to be an absurd and futile exercise . This sug- gests that Congress , when it enacted the program , never intended EPA to regulate CO2 ...
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... problems , not a global phenomenon like the greenhouse effect . If EPA were to set a NAAQS for CO2 that is below the current atmospheric level , the entire United States would be out of attainment - even if every factory and power plant ...
... problems , not a global phenomenon like the greenhouse effect . If EPA were to set a NAAQS for CO2 that is below the current atmospheric level , the entire United States would be out of attainment - even if every factory and power plant ...
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... problems . These programs also help the United States meet its obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , which was ratified in 1992. I would also note , as EPA has indicated in past correspondence ...
... problems . These programs also help the United States meet its obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , which was ratified in 1992. I would also note , as EPA has indicated in past correspondence ...
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... problems . II . Clean Air Act Authority The Clean Air Act provides that EPA may regulate a substance if it is ( a ) an “ air pollutant , " and ( b ) the Administrator makes certain findings regarding such pollutant ( usually related to ...
... problems . II . Clean Air Act Authority The Clean Air Act provides that EPA may regulate a substance if it is ( a ) an “ air pollutant , " and ( b ) the Administrator makes certain findings regarding such pollutant ( usually related to ...
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... problems . Under certain limited circumstances , where states fail to carry out their responsibilities under Title I of the Act , EPA has authority to take certain actions , which might include establishing a cap - and - trade program ...
... problems . Under certain limited circumstances , where states fail to carry out their responsibilities under Title I of the Act , EPA has authority to take certain actions , which might include establishing a cap - and - trade program ...
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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.