Obama Plans will Push Through Global Warming Policy

Obama lost the fight to get Climate Change legislation passed through Congress, but he plans on making it happen by going around Congress. The Republicans say they are ready to fight it out.

Next year, carbon emissions limits will be in the hands of the Environmental Protection Agency. They are going to set unilateral regulations for the release of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Companies who put out these gases will have to purchase new permits to do so.

Republicans say that this is a way of side stepping Congress in order to enact Obama's global warming agenda. It is believed by these critics that it will seriously damage an already beleaguered economy. Also, because companies will have to spend billions of dollars on new gas control devices they will have to cut jobs in an already depressed work force.

Ken Green D. Emv.

Dr. Ken Green, renown Environmental scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said of the new regulations, "They are job killers. Regulations, period -- any kind of regulation is a weight on economy. It requires people to comply with the law, which takes work hours and time, which reduces the profitability of firms. Therefore, they grow more slowly and you create less jobs."

Obama believes that the 2007 Supreme Court ruling directing the agency to make a determination on whether carbon dioxide is the cause of global warming gives him the power to to put the regulations in place because it is a hazard to human health.

The Republicans may be able to block some of the policies since they take control of the House in January.
Republican members are vowing to fight the administration if it tries to impose a carbon crackdown. Earlier this year there was bipartisan support to take away power from the EPA to set carbon emissions limits. It is likely for Republican lawmakers to bring it back up.

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P. V. Street

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