Alaska senator moves to strip EPA's authority

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/10/senate.epa/

I didn't know that the EPA was founded by an executive order. If that's true, I have mixed feelings about whose responsibility it is to oversee it, whether it be the legislative or executive branches.

On a side note, it is absurd to consider carbon dioxide a "greehouse gas." We exhale that gas, and therefore are greenhouse polluters...
 
nah. CO2 is a compound we breathe in and breathe out naturally and is harmless up to a certain ppm

E.coli is a living organism that needs to eat...and if its in our GI tract, it will eat us.
 
so if I develop a new way to make...let's say paint...and the production of that paint results in 11tyGagillion tons of carbon dioxide being released every day and it begins to fill the valley and change the climate where I built my paint plant... that shouldn't be regulated as a greenhouse gas and i shouldn't be required to scrub the CO2 coming from my stacks?
 
And a factory pumping out CO2 into the atmosphere for everyone else to deal with has nothing to do with humans breathing it out. So... what's your point?
 
The items that you listed where politicians have made laws in respect to those items don't deal with standards, uses, scope, and range. Agencies tasked to oversee those items are specifically designed to create the standards and test against those standards.

And actually most politicians are lawyers
 
but the factory is employing people and making goods we need what the hell good is a "small carbon footprint" when you dont have a job. its a double edged sword
 
my point is: in order for a normal person to feel discomfort (not death) due to CO2, the concentration in the air would have to be upwards of 1000 ppm, and as it is right now...CO2 makes up between 2 and 3 ppm of the atmosphere
 
the day we perfect the force field that will stop your pollution from coming into my house, I'll be all for you doing whatever you want. until then, scrub your fucking smokestacks.
 
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