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New Ad Targets Nelson And Johanns For Opposing Action On Climate Change

by: Kyle Michaelis

Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 00:17:39 AM CST

An excellent diary last month took on Ben Nelson's Misguided Climate Change Denial. Now, the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund is running the following radio ad in Nebraska challenging Nelson and fellow Senator Mike Johanns for their efforts to undermine the Clean Air Act and to prevent the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases:

Sue Brown, executive director of the NWFAF, also released the following statement:

"Senators Nelson and Johanns need to drop this misguided assault on the Clean Air Act, an attack that's being coordinated by lobbyists for some of America's worst polluters. Our senators need to get to work instead on clean energy and climate legislation that creates clean energy jobs and secures America's energy future."

Finally, NWF provides the following warning for what inaction on climate change will really mean for the state of Nebraska:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates average temperatures in the state could rise nearly seven degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 if climate change continues unabated. Among the potential impacts in Nebraska:
* Resulting loss of wildlife and habitat could mean a loss of tourism dollars. In 2006, 807,000 people spent more than $514 million on hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing in Nebraska, creating 11,809 jobs in the state.
* Drier summer conditions could cause crop failures and increasing competition for irrigation, ultimately hurting Nebraska's agriculture economy.

Hopefully, Senators Nelson and Johanns are paying attention and will reconsider standing in the way of progress addressing our state, our nation, and our world's climate change crisis.

Kyle Michaelis :: New Ad Targets Nelson And Johanns For Opposing Action On Climate Change

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New Ad Targets Nelson And Johanns For Opposing Action On Climate Change | 3 comments

New EPA Pollution Fees (0.00 / 0)

If you think the EPA should really regulate carbon dioxide, then I'm sure you'll be thrilled with their proposed fees on breathing by all non-plant life forms in the USA. I just hope they make the breath tax progressive such that politicians are taxed at the highest rate for all the hot air they spew. How long before President Obama is handing stimulus money to promote jobs in the "green" industry of rebreather manufacturing to capture and safely dispose of the CO2 we all exhale.

by: GeosUser @ Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 17:22:27 PM UTC

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Ooh, that's clever... (0.00 / 0)

or it would be if not for the fact that all non-plant life forms get the carbon they exhale, either directly from plants, or from animals that eat plants. Some of that carbon is sequestered in the bodies of those organisms. The rest is released into the atmosphere where it can again be used by plants to create the food that all non-plant life forms live on.

Net increase in atmospheric CO2 - 0.00 million tons

by: Darwin @ Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 18:32:51 PM UTC

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Not Clever (0.00 / 0)

. . . and just plain wrong on what EPA is proposing. The EPA concluded that GHG emissions from motor vehicles can reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare. This "endangerment" finding occurred in the process of EPA regulating tailpipe emissions from motor vehicles. (EPA and the automakers subsequently reached a deal that will harmonize EPA regulations with the more familiar CAFE (fuel economy) standards)

Legally, once a pollutant (which is very broadly defined in the Clean Air Act) is regulated in any way, "major emitting facilities" must install the "Best Available Control Technology" for that pollutant. While normally this rule applies to facilities emitting more than 250 tons per year of a pollutant, EPA upped the amount for GHGs to 25,000 tpy.

So only "major emitting facilities" are regulated. And only then if they emit more than 25,000 tpy of GHGs. And then they aren't forbidden from creating GHGs, they just have to use the best technology available to minimize their emissions.

Suggesting that the EPA is going to regulate breathing is absurd and demonstrates an ignorance of the subject.

by: lp2k @ Mon Feb 22, 2010 at 19:23:52 PM UTC

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