With this announcement, the United States has finally moved away from the know-nothings and toward a true approach to climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming.
Which ain't to say it's gonna be easy to deal with. First there's a 60-day comment period before any regulations can be published. Then there's Congress, particularly the Senate, which still has more than its share of deniers who insist that it's the cows who emit carbon dioxide and that human activity has nothing to do with it.
Nonetheless, a good start.
Posted by Linkmeister at April 17, 2009 11:23 AM | TrackBackIt's really about time.
Posted by: cassie-b at April 17, 2009 02:10 PM