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...first African-American head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson is already a historic figure. Yet, it's her response to the threat of climate change that will ultimately decide her legacy. On April 17, Jackson's EPA issued an endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, concluding that carbon dioxide and other emissions posed a threat to public health and welfare. That potentially opens the door for the EPA to directly regulate greenhouse gases, which would represent the most far-reaching action in the agency's history. Jackson spoke with TIME's Bryan Walsh about the endangerment finding, balancing...
...think it may surprise many people that the EPA is just now coming out and saying that greenhouse gases are dangerous. How important is the endangerment finding...
What makes this important is that this is the first time the U.S. government is speaking on the science of greenhouse gases and their potential to impact welfare and public health as well. This is a proposal to meet our responsibility. EPA has had an obligation to do this for over two years.(See the top 10 green stories...
Both you and President Obama have said they would much prefer for Congress to take the lead on dealing with climate change - most likely through passing some kind of carbon cap and trade bill - as opposed to having the EPA act on its own. Why is that...
...truth, by any reasonable definition, the EPA has the right to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The scientific case is clear: global warming is dangerous, and man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming; ergo, those gases are pollutants that must be dealt with. But carbon is so global, so embedded in every aspect of modern life that it needs to be managed by the popularly elected governmental body meant to represent us all: Congress. "This is an enormous shift, and we need to get together as a nation to deal with it," says Maggie...