The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared today that carbon emissions are a threat to public health. Such a declaration paves the way for the EPA to potentially set regulations on carbon emissions, regardless of whether Congress passes a law on the issue.
A 2007 Supreme Court case ruled that the EPA had to review whether greenhouse gasses are an endangerment to public health, and today’s announcement was a summary of those findings, Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator, said. Under a 1970 law, The Clean Air Act, EPA is authorized and obligated to make “reasonable efforts” to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, she said.
“This administration will not ignore science or the law any longer, nor will we avoid the responsibility we owe to our children and our grandchildren.”
The findings relied on “decades of sound, peer-reviewed, extensively evaluated scientific data. That data came from around the world and from our own U.S. scientists,” Jackson said.
Jackson soon heads to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP-15. This announcement means that American officials at the conference can demonstrate a clear commitment to curbing climate change, Jackson said. “We hope that today’s announcement serves as another incentive for far-reaching accords in our meetings this week.”
President Obama will be at COP-15 on December 18. Today in the White House, he held a private meeting with climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore.
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Nothing is manifested bootless by Almighty Creator’s repository of attributes. That ‘s why, 71% ‘off-shore’ of our Planet – The Human Earth, pertaining to divine blessings of ‘Oceans’ – having actual impacts on developments of climates, justifiably-designed with erection of gigantic ‘Forestry’ – naturally acts as smartest ‘environmental-shield’ counterbalancing with 29 % of Lords-Land ‘on-shore’.
Let we protect & utilize our natural resources fascinated for us as ‘ruby-&-Coral’, within our Oceans along with Forests, as simple as environmental friendly ‘Part-of-Eco-Equation’.
The disorganized jumbled growth of ‘Jungles’ should be ancient part-of-history when we were ‘Tarzan’ . Now, we are so ‘smartly-cultivated’ with ultra-smart technologies, that we can also work-out on smartest planning of our Forests to manage with such as well-planned Road-Mapping of cutting-edge infra-structure developments of our Forests to bring all of us out-of-the-wood without unnecessary cutting of pointless wood; so that we our CTL (Coal–To-Liquid) Plants to turn our vast Coal Reserves into barrels of Oil , our Coal Power Generation Plants and allied Industries having environmental-reservations becomes more environmental-responsive by absorption of excessive greenhouse gases like CO2, within these industrial-Sights that we will especially select inside these Forestry on our planet .
However, such an economical ‘GREEN –GROWTH’ Planning also demands mitigation initiative, enabling us to take our honest responsibility campaigning to mobilize all to come forward to foster environmental friendly Plantation of ‘sea-zonal’ type of Trees which can be cultivated along Sea Side-by-Side of our Industrial Port cities. The above mentioned Cultivated Road-mapping will ever be count as Sustainable International Development leading to creation of a huge number of new job opportunities, too.
Upcoming Summit on Environment & Climate, expected a consensus & agreement to curb “Terror’ of global warming will be a first step as Global-Environmental Control-Management with the short-term & long-term Solution of ‘Reduction-in-Emissions of Carbon’ so that particularly Green-Growth job-oriented development cultivation of ‘Trees – As -Tool – For Best of The Best Absorption of Carbon’ as ‘A Noble – Cause’ to the ‘Global-Society’ living on our Human Earth Planets’ respective country such that should have to be with a consensus on an extended international target for : ‘Cultivation of One Tree Each Per Person’ of respective nation besides all mitigation & other Green-Growth measures, as an strategy leading to finally reach on other Global solutions of highly important World-Problems such as long-term ENERGY solutions under Global-’Operational’-Managemen¬t of collective participation of All member countries of United Nation Organization with ‘democratic re-structuring’ of UNO itself with an over all mutual understanding.