[Vision2020] Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act

[Ted Moffett]

http://epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment/petitions.html
 Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or
Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean
Air Act Action

EPA determined in December 2009 that climate change caused by emissions of
greenhouse gases threatens the public's health and the environment. Since
then, EPA received ten petitions challenging this determination. On July 29,
2010, EPA denied these petitions.

The petitions to reconsider EPA's "Endangerment Finding" claimed that
climate science can't be trusted, and asserted a conspiracy that calls into
question the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC)<http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.htm>
[image:
Exit EPA disclaimer] <http://www.epa.gov/epahome/exitepa.htm>, the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences <http://americasclimatechoices.org/> [image:
Exit EPA disclaimer] <http://www.epa.gov/epahome/exitepa.htm>, and the U.S.
Global Change Research
Program<http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts>.
After months of serious consideration of the petitions and of the state of
climate change science, EPA found no evidence to support these claims.

The scientific evidence supporting EPA's finding is robust, voluminous, and
compelling. Climate change is happening now, and humans are contributing to
it. Multiple lines of evidence show a global warming trend over the past 100
years. Beyond this, melting ice in the Arctic, melting glaciers around the
world, increasing ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, altered
precipitation patterns, and shifting patterns of ecosystems and wildlife
habitats all confirm that our climate is
changing<http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators.html>
.

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