COPENHAGEN— Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson insisted Wednesday that her agency did not time the release of its global-warming endangerment finding to jump-start climate talks here.
“The endangerment finding and the work here are separate,” she told a packed room at the Bella Center. “Certainly, I was glad we were able to complete the finding and make that statement just before, but that wasn’t the impetus for our work.”
International negotiators have jumped on the ruling as a way for the Obama administration to increase its commitment to slashing greenhouse gases, regardless whether Congress goes along.
The ruling forces the EPA to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from industrial polluters like power plants, factories and auto makers.
Uh huh. The timing of this announcement had nothing to do with Obama going to the talks in Copenhagen. None at all. It’s just a coincidence, we’re assured…by his political appointee…at the Bella Center…in Copenhagen…at the climate summit.
9. December 2009 at 2:13 pm
What has Obama done for Katrina victims?
What has Obama done to insure gas prices won’t relapse?
What has Obama done for jobs? Foreclosure? Gitmo?
Arrogant little twit that accidentally got into the white house while America was having a bad hair day.
Now generations will pay the price.