smirk won - we get to keep our dirty air

[donsu]

http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/07/18/little-courtcars/index.html?source=daily

So Three Judges Walk Into a Car ...
Appeals court rules EPA doesn't have to regulate CO2 emissions from cars


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In a major legal victory for the Bush administration, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against 12 states, three cities, and more than a dozen environmental groups that had argued the EPA was obligated by the Clean Air Act to regulate CO2 emissions from cars and trucks, given the public health threat that climate change poses.

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The Bush EPA, for its part, was happy that the 2-1 decision validated its approach (or lack thereof) to climate regulation. "We are so pleased that the court supported our decision to use voluntary measures such as Energy Star and methane markets, as opposed to litigation and mandatory regulation that does not promote economic growth," EPA Press Secretary Eryn Witcher told Muckraker.

Industry representatives are going a step further and calling the decision a substantiation of their view that the science on global warming is still uncertain. "The court found that the science is not only inconclusive, but there's a significant amount of disagreement about the potential health effects of climate change -- there's a lot of speculation," said Lisa Jaeger, former acting general counsel for the EPA and a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, which represents energy interests. She quoted the section of the majority opinion written by Judge A. Raymond Randolph in which he claims that the "understanding of the relationships between weather/climate and human health is in its infancy." Attorneys general from 11 states who went to bat for the administration during the suit -- including Michigan and Texas -- also applauded the outcome.
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so our crashed health system will continue to get more and more ill people caused by the growing-worse-by-the-minute air.

and we all go on as if

tick, tick, tick

[donsu]

1. kicking to put this back on page one

nt

[Deja Q]

2. CO2 is great for trees. Sadly they keep choppipng more trees down...

in order ot build strip malls and parking lots.

But everything ends. It's always a matter of when.

[donsu]

3. but it wouldn't have to end if we took steps to clean up the air

guess americans like being sick more then they like conservation. ain't going to give up their driving pleasures.

[thecrow]

4. Isn't this interesting, Judge A. Raymond Randolph ....

"understanding of the relationships between weather/climate and human health is in its infancy."

Oh..... I thought that was well established:

Breathe dirty air = be sick or die.

You mean my doctor has been telling me UNTRUTHS???

Huh.

[SoCalDem]

5. And don't forget the huge medical insurance premiums

that people have to cough up to handle all those illnesses..and what a shame it is to be excluded from even getting insurance because of pre-existing conditions..Especially if the conditions were caused by greedy industries not cleaning up their own messes..

They dump their shit on the public, and the public pays with wrecked health, huge insurance premiums (if they can even get it), and sick children..

Such a deal:(