Climate change debate treacherous for all sides - The Boston Globe
As a candidate, Obama vowed he would put the United States on a path to addressing climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollutants. He offered Congress wide latitude to pass climate change legislation but always held in reserve the threat of EPA regulation if it failed to act. The deeply polarized Senate’s refusal to enact climate change law essentially called his bluff.
With Obama’s hand forced by the mandates of the Clean Air Act and a 2007 Supreme Court decision, the EPA will impose the first regulation of major stationary sources of greenhouse gases starting today.
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