The Edmond Sun, Edmond, OK - Fallin to speak at forum to refute global warming

U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin will speak at a forum on refuting global warming at 6 p.m. Tuesday on the campus of Oklahoma Christian University.

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Obama's Climate: Candidate Says He'd Push Hard to Curb Carbon

Senator Barack Obama really wants to tackle climate change, of course. That’s such a big issue, it’s running neck-and-neck with health care at the top of the Democratic economic agenda. And Senator Edward Kennedy barely mentioned climate change in his teary convention speech, unlike health care.

The usual problem is that expensive, broad-reaching programs like that tend to get bogged down on the Hill. But President Obama would act on the climate with or without the help of Congress, apparently. From today’s WSJ:

The Obama camp also believes it has a regulatory stick to force congressional action. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. While the Bush administration has taken a go-slow approach, a President Obama would shift into high gear, says Elgie Holstein, a senior Obama energy adviser. If Congress didn’t act on a cap-and-trade system, he says, Mr. Obama “wouldn’t hesitate to use Clean Air Act authorization to regulate” CO2 emissions, a step that could involve a huge increase in EPA oversight of industry.