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...Fair - twice the number who attended last year, according to organizers. But while the popularity of the packed fair was a sign that not even Ivy Leaguers are immune from job worries in this recession, it also signaled that green jobs - which include everything from solar panel installers to EPA administrators - could be a rare bright spot for employment. "The jobs are really coming in this field," says Karen Marcus, a "green niche coach" who was advising applicants at the Columbia fair. "We're finally mainstreaming the green career. We're on the cusp of opportunity." (See TIME's photos...
...Retired from the Secret Service in 1991 as leader of the agency's fraud division in order to join the Environmental Protection Agency. He became the EPA's head of enforcement, responsible for the agency's criminal investigations...
...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...
...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 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...