Word: air
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...decision not to regulate CO2 emissions from new coal power plants. The next day, she backed up that statement by telling the New York Times she was considering acting on an April 2007 Supreme Court decision that empowers the EPA to regulate CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. If the EPA exercises that authority as expected - a process that would likely play out over months - it could potentially put in place one of the farthest-reaching regulations in U.S. history, affecting the way we use electricity, the way we drive and more. (See pictures of the world...
...What this says is that the Clean Air Act already provides the government with the chance to do something about global-warming pollution," says David Doniger, policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate center. "We have a right to expect the government to carry out the existing...
...written, using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions directly would be unreasonably difficult, because of carbon dioxide's sheer ubiquity. In 2000, the U.S. emitted less than 18 million tons of the pollutant sulfur dioxide, chiefly from cars, power plants and factories. In the same year, national CO2 emissions reached nearly 6 billion tons, from virtually every aspect of modern life. Regulating emissions would be like trying to gather up the ocean. In addition, the Clean Air Act technically requires "major" sources of pollutants - meaning those that emit more than 250 tons a year - to acquire costly...
...people my parents were," says Robbins. "If mum had come out and told dad that they had a call from the CFA that there was a firestorm and get in the car and go, he would have gone," she says. "There should have been a graded warning system, air raid sirens and a mandatory evacuation system...
...Europe's commitment to NATO military and peacekeeping operations. So news that France plans to return to NATO's integrated military command ahead of or during 60th anniversary celebrations for the alliance on April 4 could, at first glance, be taken as a sign that change is in the air. President Nicolas Sarkozy's long-standing reintegration plan would reverse President Charles de Gaulle's decision 43 years ago to pull France from NATO's military and planning structure to protest what he felt was Anglo-American domination of the organization. Since de Gaulle, France has staked out independent...