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...Shutter Island, $22.2 million; $75.1 million, second week 2. Cop Out, $18.6 million, first weekend 3. The Crazies, $16.5 million, first weekend 4. Avatar, $14 million; $706.9 million, 11th week 5. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $9.8 million; $71.2 million, third week 6. Valentine's Day, $9.5 million; $100.4 million, third week 7. Dear John, $5 million; $72.6 million, fourth week 8. The Wolfman, $4.1 million; $57.2 million, third week 9. Tooth Fairy, $3.5 million; $53.9 million, sixth week 10. Crazy Heart, $2.5 million; $25.1 million, 11th week...
...Republican from Alaska, introduced a bill late last year that would explicitly prevent the EPA from regulating carbon, and she already has 40 co-sponsors. Many Democrats also have their doubts - eight Democratic Senators from coal-heavy states sent a letter on Sunday, Feb. 21, to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson listing "serious economic and energy security concerns" with greenhouse-gas regulation...
...Both Jackson and President Obama have emphasized many times that they would prefer that Congress take the lead on climate change; many assumed that the mere threat of the EPA's regulatory authority would goad Congress into action. Now the question is, If the Senate won't move, can the EPA act effectively...
...Jackson has already begun to outline how greenhouse-gas regulations might work. Responding to the concerns of Democrats, she emphasized in a letter on Monday that only major sources of greenhouse-gas emissions would be subject to regulation before 2013, and that smaller emitters wouldn't be regulated before 2016. That decision seemed designed to blunt criticism that top-down regulations could negatively impact small-business owners, not just major power plants and factories. "I share your goals of ensuring economic recovery at this critical time and of addressing greenhouse-gas emissions in sensible ways that are consistent with...
...those reasons, the White House would much rather see Congress take the lead - and the political heat - on climate change. But the EPA's Jackson, at least, seems ready to fight. At the Senate hearing Tuesday morning, she tangled with Republican climate skeptics and emphasized that the Supreme Court required her agency to act. "The science behind climate change is settled, and human activity is responsible for global warming," she said. "That conclusion is not a partisan one." That's true, but just about everything else in Washington still...