Decision To Regulate CO2 Is Based On Flawed Science
Governor Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbot and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples announced today that the state is taking legal action in the U.S Court of Appeals challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to regulate green house gases.
“This legal action is being taken to protect Texas economy and the jobs that go with it, as well as defend Texas’ freedom to continue our successful environmental strategies free from federal overreach”, said Perry.
Since 2007, when the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA concluded that greenhouse gases are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act the debate over policy approaches to addressing climate change has intensified, so also questions as to whether the health and environmental benefits of air pollution control justify the costs incurred by industry, taxpayers, and consumers.
“With billions of dollars at stake, EPA outsources the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy”, said Attorney General Greg Abbot, “so EPA should not rely upon it to reach a decision that will hurt small businesses, farmers and ranchers, and the larger Texas economy”.
The state has filed a Petition for review with the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit, and will also file a Petition for Reconsideration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking administrator Lisa P. Jackson to reconsider her decision. Texas holds that EPA’s Endangerment Finding is legally unsupported because the agency outsourced scientific assessment to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Phil Jones, a scientist at the center of the Climategate scandal has acknowledged problems with climate change science.
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