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Bush cronies tried to redefine ‘carbon dioxide’ to save power plants from emissions regulations

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Earlier this month, former EPA official Jason Burnett wrote to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) with explosive revelations on how the White House has neutered climate change science to protect corporate interests. For example, OMB general counsel Jeffrey Rosen asked for multiple memos on whether carbon dioxide (CO2) from cars and plants could be regulated differently.

In a Senate hearing today, Burnett further explained that under the Clear Air Act, “after a pollutant is a regulated pollutant, controls are required on a variety of sources.” During the “inter-agency process,” Burnett said, OMB officials looked for ways to define CO2 from power plants as different from CO2 from automobiles, in order to shield industrial power plants from regulation under the landmark Supreme Court decision Massachusetts v. EPA:

BURNETT: There was quite a bit of effort and interest to see whether the Supreme Court case itself and regulation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from automobiles be restricted to just automobiles. … So there’s an interest to determine whether we could define CO2 from automobiles as somehow different than CO2 from power plants, for example –

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: Do you think that’s possible?

BURNETT: Clearly it wasn’t supportable.
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10 responses // Bush cronies tried to redefine ‘carbon dioxide’ to save power plants from emissions regulations

  • First step, watch the video...

    Second step..?

    How do we demonstrate that we are watching?

    Our governmental ~employees~ should be working for the people, not the corporate entities.

    How do we get there from here?

    ~Con Esperanza
    onepeacefullight
  • This is an important story.

    The ongoing pattern of denying realty is shocking.

    It goes all the way back to Day One wherein the Bushies declared that New York City was "perfectly safe" from airborne toxins after the Twin Towers collapsed (when it wasn't).

    I don't think we've every had a President this corrupt in 200 years.

    Nixon was a sweetheart compared to the monsters we've got rampaging in there now. Nixion actually created the FDA and went to China.

    Bush wants to destroy the FDA and nuke China.
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    crob80227
  • I am terribly afraid that will see more of this kind of trickery as the end nears. Clearly, they are not concerned about their disdain for the American people being public knowledge. Buckle up folks, it's going be a wild ride to the finish. Focus and vote.
    bluestranger
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  • If they can define CO2 out of existence as a pollutant, I choose to define Bush and Cheney out of the human race. They are a subspecies and as such not entitled to the full rights and protection of the laws of the U.S.

    signed - Self-proclaimed King of the World.
    philbangs
  • GWB and gang have already redefined Legality.
    Why stop there?
    huntre
  • These people are trying to limit the power of the next president at every turn. They know there will most likely not be a republican pres. again for at least a decade, so they need to castrate the white house for at least that long. We need to watch their every move from here to January 20, 2009.
    victimofcoal
  • Guess what---if you go to the EPA website and download the global warming Scientific Final Assessment---in the PDF format, downloaded from the government site---you will get a Trojan Horse.

    Luckily, I scanned it before I opened it.

    AbdeRdr709_en_US_exe.

    If you don't believe you are being spied on right now--go download it and scan it yourself.
    Wetdog
  • I don't know why people are so greedy.
    iknew
  • Speechless!
    rasting

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