17
Feb

Texas to challenge EPA CO2 finding

Hot off the press from The Houston Chronicle

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.

The federal agency issued the finding in December in an attempt to regulate the heat-trapping gases under the Clean Air Act.

Texas is the nation’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, releasing enough each year that the state would rank seventh worldwide if it were a country.

The state’s petition, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., comes four days after several businesses and conservative groups filed similar suits.

Don’t mess with Texas.

3 Responses to “Texas to challenge EPA CO2 finding”

  1. Xao Ping Wang says:

    I’m a certified AGW skeptic. So don’t misconstrue my post …

    One must question the motivation here. Sure, as opponents of AGW and any cap-and-trade, we would like to think that Texas is standing with us against the apostasy of the AGW myth. But if ClimateGate has taught us anything, it is that money talks. I’m sure that Texas is riding the wave of carbon cynicism and opposing legislation that is going to cost them a lot of money in the long term, especially if those figures are correct that they are the 7th largest emitter of CO2.

    Agree?

  2. yaosxx says:

    Go for it Texas!

  3. I LOVE CO2 says:

    we wrote this email to the NobelPriceCommitee and world wide media:

    In 2007 you awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPPC and Albert Arnold Gore for their efforts about the climate protection. Demonstrably, data was manipulated or even falsified.

    Don’t you think it is your duty to verify the award of this famous and most honorable prize again? Due to the knowledge that was obtained by the climate gate or by the glacier gate, your reputation would suffer enormously, if you covered it up in silence.
    Let the public know, that this award is not arbitrary and therefore unimportant and that the Laureates are most honorable.

    Here come the first reactions: NYPost

    The other main organ of the climate “consensus” is the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It won the Nobel Peace Prize for its 2007 report — which turns out to have been so riddled with errors it could have been researched on Wikipedia.

    Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/warming_meltdown_iD1hypJAstOrvovafbIbGK#ixzz0fk4PeTwC [2]

    FTD Financial Times Germany:
    Nobel Price Judge going into distance to the IPCC

    Cause of HimalayaGate the chief of the royalswedishacademy claims a strict inspection of the gremium and CONSEQUENCES!!!

    http://www.infokriegernews.de/wordpress/2010/02/17/friedensnobelpreis-al-gore-und-ipcc-muessen-zittern/

    ;-)