Greenhouse

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Friday submitted its greenhouse gas (GHG) endangerment finding — that GHG emissions contribute to air pollution and may endanger public health — to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for interagency review, an agency spokeswoman said.

A cap-and-trade scheme to regulate greenhouse gas emissions would be “the single largest tax in the history of our nation,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry told attendees at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) annual meeting in Biloxi, MS, last Monday. Perry was named chairman of the group of governors from oil- and gas-producing states.

A cap-and-trade scheme to regulate greenhouse gas emissions would be “the single largest tax in the history of our nation,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry told attendees at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) annual meeting in Biloxi, MS, Monday. Perry was named chairman of the group of governors from oil- and gas-producing states.

Although states and the U.S. government want to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, federal subsidies to energy “highly” favor sources that have high GHG emissions levels, according to research released last Friday by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The cap-and-trade system for controlling greenhouse gas emissions that is being promoted by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats is a “dead end” and “an enormous threat to our economy,” according to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday granted California a waiver to enforce a state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standard for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. Environmentalists and state officials immediately lauded the much-anticipated move by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (see Daily GPI, April 20).

A ranking House Republican Wednesday accused the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of suppressing an internal report that didn’t support the agency’s position that greenhouse gases (GHG) contribute to air pollution and endanger public health.

Domestic oil and natural gas companies invested $58.4 billion between 2000 and 2008 in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than was invested by either the federal government or by all other U.S.-based private industries combined, according a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).

Domestic oil and natural gas companies invested $58.4 billion between 2000 and 2008 in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than was invested by either the federal government or by all other U.S.-based private industries combined, according a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).