Looking ahead, do you feel the same way about EPA regulating carbon emissions?
I'd like to run something that Joe Barton, a Republican, said today about the EPA decision and about the climate e-mails.
One of the complaints Republicans have this morning and this afternoon about the EPA decision is that they want better investigation of this e-mail controversy.
There are legitimate legal and policy gripes about the EPA's expanding power--it declared in April that it believed it had the right to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
"With limited data, human health risks are uncertain, states may design incorrect or ineffective emission control strategies, and EPA's decisions about regulating industry may be misinformed, " Elkins said.
Mr. Lewis voluntarily attended EPA classes to learn more about procedures and regulations.
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"What we see is a Congress who tends to think that the job of public health and environmental protection is not particularly important, that the job in some ways is done and that we don't have to worry about further reducing pollution, " says EPA Administrator Carol Browner.
One of the things about a new law (as opposed to a new EPA regulation) is that it erases some of the likelihood of lawsuits on day one.
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Automakers actually do their own testing and submit the results to the EPA, which reviews the data and confirms about 10-to-15 percent of the ratings itself at the National Vehicles and Fuel Emissions Laboratory (which is how Hyundai and Kia were supposedly tripped up on their understated fuel economy estimates).
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Already this year the EPA audited Hyundai and Kia after receiving consumer complaints about the fuel economy figures.
Then they submit the results to the EPA, which reviews the data and spot-checks about 15 percent of the ratings.
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Some Democrats, worried about potential job losses in industrial states, are already urging the EPA to slow down its push to combat climate change.
If the EPA can regulate any of those larger industries, what about smaller entities, such as many building and highway construction projects, agricultural operations, big box commercial enterprises, hospitals and even churches that emit lots of greenhouse gases?
Sonata hybrid because he's only averaging about 22 mpg in a car that in 2012 was rated by the EPA at 35 city, 40 mpg highway.
And we used our existing authorities in new and interesting ways through the Department of Transportation and EPA to establish the new efficiency standard that Secretary Chu was talking about.
Our best scientists and public health officials (FDA, EPA, state and local health departments) are once again quite serious about protecting us, and they have the expensive equipment to do so, measuring radiation in milk, water and food down to a single picocurie.
Scientists at the EPA have long favoured such a ruling, which did not contain any specifics about reducing emissions of the pollutants.
No, Hyundai had to be shamed into the admission by a grass-roots campaign of skepticism about the mileage claims and then suffer the ignominy of a finding of wrongdoing by an EPA audit.
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And across the board, we are looking at -- think about energy policy -- not about what is the role of the Department of Energy, what is the role of EPA, but how are we going to across the board use our existing authorities to bring solutions to American families and work with the Congress to find some additional bipartisan solutions.
Fitch Credit Ratings estimates that this is whittling coal sales by about 63 million tons per year, equivalent to 6% of 2010 consumption, with new EPA regulations further reducing sales by another 5%.
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Although the all-electric Leaf is claimed to travel 100 miles on a single overnight charge, according to EPA, under real-world driving tests it is much more likely to go about 73 miles.
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ChicoBag founder and CEO Andy Keller says that stat came from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but that agency has since revised its stats, putting plastic bag recycling rates in about the 6-percent range.
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On July 6, after an appeals court rejected an EPA compromise that allowed Navistar to keep selling its noncompliant engines with offsetting penalties, Ustian made an about-face, reluctantly embracing the very technology he had spurned for years.
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