Word: carbonic
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...reality, observers say the EPA is unlikely to pursue small emitters in any carbon regulation, instead focusing on reining in big sources like power plants and automobiles, which together are responsible for some 60% of U.S. carbon emissions. Such action could have momentous consequences for the scores of new coal power plants that have been proposed across the U.S., an expansion that environmentalists are dead set against...
...Regulating greenhouse gases from power plants could bring a total halt to carbon-intensive electricity, since there is currently no economical way to capture and store the plants' carbon emissions. That, in turn, could lead to an escalation of costlier but low-carbon alternatives like natural gas, wind or solar by default, which critics say would put a drag on the economy. (Environmentalists - and their allies in the White House - argue that the cost of curbing carbon emissions will be more than manageable and will help push the U.S. economy to a cleaner and more sustainable future...
...could also exercise the power it has to regulate carbon emissions from cars - perhaps by insisting on stronger fuel-economy standards like the ones being advanced by California or by mandating a carbon standard for fuels. "It's really critical, when the country is making a decision to pour massive capital investment into new cars and power plants, that the moves are harmonized to address greenhouse-gas emissions," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund...
...Even most environmentalists, however, don't really want to see the EPA take all the responsibility for reducing carbon emissions, using a law that was drafted before climate change was a known threat. Instead, they see federal regulations as a protective stopgap measure until Congress can pass national carbon cap-and-trade legislation specifically tailored to global warming. "It's not going to be easy, but it can be done," says Doniger. Since the only thing that coal-industry executives and other fossil-fuel peddlers fear more than a carbon cap is EPA regulation, he might just be right...
...Within the scientific community, this statistic is only three percent.) Perhaps most disturbingly, the study reports that 13 percent of Americans believe that no further climate control measures are necessary—in other words, that we as a society should take no action to further reduce carbon emissions or attempt to combat global warming...