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On Feb. 17, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced that the agency would reconsider a Bush Administration 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...
However, carrying out the law will be anything but simple, nor will it be the most efficient way to protect the environment. The 2007 court case in question gave the EPA the authority to regulate CO2, when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of 12 states, led by Massachusetts, that...
As the law is 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 EPA 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...
Harvard will lose yet another prominent academic when proteonomics specialist and Medical School Lecturer Joshua LaBaer leaves for Arizona State University this June. Earlier this year, LaBear received an offer from Arizona State University to head the newly-founded Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, where he was promised...