Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Team Obama: U.S. Energy Policy to Ape California?

Ms. Browner advocates using the Clean Air Act to let the EPA regulate emissions throughout the economy, which wouldn’t require any political horse-trading in Congress, and which the current EPA has been loath to do.

That horrifies Big Business, of course. U.S. Chamber of Commerce vice-president William Kovacs shudders at the economic implications of top-to-bottom EPA regulation of the entire economy.

European Workers Jaded About ‘Green Jobs Myth’

Last week in Brussels, some 11,000 metal workers protested climate-change policies, saying their industry could be harmed and force their jobs abroad. Most of the protesting workers were from Germany, where automakers are still angry over the new EU emission standards. In the meantime, Poland and Italy have also complained about the new green policies, Wall Street Journal Europe reports.

This new view of green policy is new for the Europeans, who for more than a decade have lectured Americans to sign the Kyoto Protocol, according to the article, which goes on to say that, although the Europeans are fuming over their new carbon plan, they are more than happy about the pledges made by the incoming Obama Administration because it would also impose green burdens on Americans.