EPA Toughens Stance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Lisa_Jackson_Whats_Next_for_the_EPA

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson discusses the agency's recently announced Mandatory Reporting Rule (MRR) for greenhouse gas emissions. She emphasizes that the MRR will only apply to facilities that emit at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year, and that the EPA would "not touch small businesses."

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After winning higher auto fuel economy earlier this year, what are the EPA's next big priorities?

In her first visit to California as the country's chief environmental regulator, Lisa Jackson lays out her vision for cleaning up America's air, water and land. What are her plans on toxics, mining and other hot-button issues? And with climate legislation winding through Congress, what is her view on a national renewable fuel standard and other drivers moving toward a clean energy future? How does she plan to "sell" environmentalism in minority communities? - Commonwealth Club of California

Lisa Jackson is Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She is the first African American to hold this post.

She was a member of Governor of New Jersey Jon S. Corzine's cabinet from 2006 to 2008, serving as Chief of Staff to the Governor and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).

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[vechorik]

@skeletonmom -- Ron Paul says end the EPA and pollution laws should be TOUGHER!

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Learn about United Nations Agenda 21 which is the true agenda behind the carbon tax.

[JonThm]

Global carbon dioxide is pegged at two PPM by plants doing photosynthesis. Any local readings higher than this do not matter. It is the global number which would affect the weather. And there carbon dioxide has remained static for 200 years. If you doubt this, kill are reset your high school biology idiot!

[JonThm]

Like converts water into helium oxygen, and a load of heat. Power with no toxic death.

[JonThm]

High school biology predicts correctly that green plants have converted all man is carbon dioxide into life. So there is no more carbon dioxide in the air. That is all lie from nuclear power.

[JonThm]

All man's carbon dioxide is taken in by the of plants alive in the C and on land today. Harvard University says there has been no increase in free carbon dioxide for 200 years

[MrHicks091]

@JonThm #4 the ocean & plants account for only 40% of man-made CO2 emissions (& 100% of natural emissions), which means that about 2-3 billion tonnes of CO2 is getting into the atmosphere *every year*. Seriously, the only person pushing PR is you-how long you been working for the coal/oil industry buddy?

[MrHicks091]

@JonThm Wow mate, if you're gonna regurgitate utter false-hoods as *fact*, then there really is no point. #1, the maximum amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is 3% (not 10% as you claim), & current levels of CO2 are almost 0.04%. #2 A single molecule of CO2 absorbs about 10 times more IR radiation than a single molecule of water vapor. #3 Current CO2 levels are higher than at any point in the last 7 million years, & have risen by more than 100ppm over pre-industrial levels.

[JonThm]

Carbon dioxide has remained static at two parts per 1,000,000 for 200 years, due to the effect of green plants. Man made global warming and climate change are fiction by nuclear power.

[JonThm]

@MrHicks091 At about 10% water vapour against 0.0002% CO2, water vapour is the only Game in town. Worse still

the level of CO2 has remained static for 200 years. GW is nuclear PR. But p thelants have sun thek all man's emissions.

[MrHicks091]

@JonThm Actually, water vapor is the *weakest* of all the known Greenhouse Gases-on a parts per million basis. It is a major component of the *normal* Greenhouse Effect (the thing that keeps our planet habitible) only by dint of its massive volume in the atmosphere (1% to 3%, as compared to only 0.03% of CO2). Of course, water vapor isn't the Greenhouse gas that's currently rising at unprecedented rates.