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Obama Administration Memo Warns of Harm to Economy if Greenhouse Gases Regulated through Clean Air Act
Obama Administration Memo Warns of Harm to Economy if Greenhouse Gases Regulated through Clean Air Act
Advice in an Obama administration interagency review memo to the Environmental Protection Agency warns that government regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act (CAA) will hurt the economy, and questions whether such a "precautionary" move would too expansively...
Obama Announces First Nationwide Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
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Obama admin memo: Greenhouse gas limits will hurt economy
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Jake Tapper reports on the discovery of an internal EPA memo that admits what everyone knows about cap-and-trade systems and regulation of CO2.  The memo advises the White House that any attempt to regulate output of CO2 in energy production will likely have “serious economic consequences,” an admission that will boost criticism of the EPA’s proposed regulation of the industry: Advice in an Obama administration interagency review memo to the Environmental Protection Agency warns that government regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act (CAA) will hurt the economy, ...

The Death Of Cap & Trade?
California Conservative — ... ABC’s Jake Tapper might’ve just finished Cap and Trade’s chances of passage by reporting on this memo: ...

Bloggers Always Violating Copyright Law
Ramblings of a Rising Media Star: Mitchell Blatt Blog — ... In the particular post I linked on carbon limits, they quoted four paragraphs from Jake Tapper’s blog, a blog which, from my experience, does not allow you to copy and paste text, so that would suggest that Ed Morrisey at Hot Air actually took the time to type it out or steal it from the page source. ...

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