Feb
Texas to challenge EPA CO2 finding
Gov. Rick Perry announced today Texas would legally challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming endanger the public’s health and welfare.
Feb
Two U.S. Congressmen go after EPA on reliance on UN’s climate panel
U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her for information related to the peer-review process and scientific objectivity underpinning the agency’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases.
Jan
Environmental Defense Fund’s 10 startling facts that show the climate crisis is scarier than ever!
The Environmental Defense Action Fund (EDF) shares their 10 startling facts on why the climate crisis is scarier than ever.
Dec
Copenhagen climate summit: Barack Obama given power to cut greenhouse gases
The Obama administration formally declared that the gases “endanger the public health and welfare of the America people” empowering its Environment Protection Agency to regulate them across the country under the country’s Clean Air Act, without having to get a hotly-contested climate bill through the US Congress.