Texas to EPA: don’t mess with us | Greenbang

Where some see going green as a new opportunity to create jobs and grow new industries, Texas Gov. Rick Perry sees a threat to his state’s way of doing business.

Citing the possible harm to his state’s economy, the Republican governor this week urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to adopt new regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The EPA is making plans to re-interpret the Federal Clean Air Act in ways that were never contemplated when this law was passed and will cripple the Texas economy,” Perry said. “The methods under consideration by the EPA will punish innovation, cost jobs and drive investment out of Texas and overseas.”
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“Texas is the nation’s leading energy producer, supplying 20 percent of the nation’s oil production, one-third of the nation’s natural-gas production, a quarter of the nation’s refining capacity and nearly 60 percent of the nation’s chemical manufacturing,” he writes. “Simply put, Texas fuels the nation.”

"Kerry Remains a Fool"

With scientific evidence weighing in favor of the idea that global warming is man made, it is imperative for the global community to shift away from dependence on fossil fuels and to a green economy as a matter of survival, Kerry said.

“You can’t be half-pregnant on this issue,” he said. “You can’t accept the science and say ‘yes, global warming is man made and yes, climate change is happening faster than the scientists in fact thought it was going to,’ and then not accept the same scientific conclusions with respect to what that impact is and what we’re already witnessing.”

Kerry expressed concern over melting ice caps, rising ocean levels, weather pattern changes, forest migration, agricultural changes and potential draughts. [Via Heliogenic Climate Change]