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President Obama under pressure to deliver on climate
By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 12/27/10 10:27 AM EST Updated: 12/28/10 6:51 AM EST
Jan. 2 isn’t just your ordinary Sunday.
It’s the day the Obama administration will officially start regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and critics have issued dire predictions of economic destruction.
President Obama and top EPA officials insist they would have preferred comprehensive climate legislation to a regulatory scheme, but they say they’re legally bound to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act after the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA that ordered EPA to determine whether the heat-trapping gases endanger public health and welfare.
And within the confines of the law, the administration argues it’s doing the best it can.
“The Clean Air Act is a tool,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in an October interview. “It’s not the optimal tool, but it can be used, and in fact, I’m legally obligated now to use it.”
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