EPA

The EPA is finally doing what it should have been doing for the last 8 years. Under the Bush II admin the EPA, in December of 2007, made a recommendation to the WH to "state officially that global warming is a threat to human welfare"; the WH "refused to open the document". In July of 2008 the EPA chief-Stephen Johnson-overruled his own "scientific and technical staff's recommendation" that global warming should be addressed under the Clean Air Act. Now with the Obama admin the EPA has sent to the WH a finding that "global warming is endangering the public's health and welfare". Finally the EPA is being allowed to do the job it was created to do. (Info above from the Virginian Pilot on newspaper 3/24/09. The EPA is now holding back Bush admin 150 to 200 applications for mountain-top coal mining to "evaluate the projects' impact on streams and wetlands". (Virginian Pilot on 3/25/09).