EPA Should Reevaluate Science Behind Proposed Climate Change Endangerment Finding - Cattle Network

WASHINGTON – The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and an informal coalition of companies and trade associations representing U.S. energy and mining sectors submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today regarding a recent EPA proposal to find that human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are an endangerment to public health and welfare. The proposed finding, released by EPA in April, is the first step in a process that could require GHG regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA)—a move that would be devastating to the agriculture sector, and the U.S. economy as a whole.

“With so much scientific uncertainty surrounding the question of whether human activity is responsible for climate change, it is inappropriate for the EPA to only consider one side of the debate—especially considering the devastating consequences that their actions could have on an already struggling U.S. economy,” says Tamara Thies, NCBA chief environmental counsel. “Additionally, the Clean Air Act is ill-equipped to regulate greenhouse gases. Should EPA move forward, we could find ourselves in a mire of bureaucracy and red tape.”

California weighs global warming [hoax] fees on producers - San Jose Mercury News

SACRAMENTO—California air regulators on Thursday will consider leveling the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other industries as a way to pay for the state's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law.

The move comes at a time of rising unemployment and great economic uncertainty in the nation's most populous state, prompting concerns that the regulatory fee will impose yet another burden on California's struggling business climate.

If approved, the fee would raise $51.2 million annually for the next three years to fund the bureaucracy needed to implement California's 2006 global warming law. The total would drop to $36.2 million by the fifth year.

House set to vote on climate change bill - West Virginia

"It's a cap-and-tax program because that's exactly what it is," [State GOP Chairman Doug McKinney] said. "But since they helped Obama get in, they've (Mollohan and Rahall) voted pretty much in line with him. There's no reason to expect them to do it any differently, though that's not what the constituents want. They don't want to cross the leadership, no matter what."