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Louisiana Enters Fray Voicing Concern About Impact on State's Oil and Gas Industries



The Obama administration's EPA wasted little time in issuing a finding earlier this year that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases posed a danger of human health and welfare.


The so-called endangerment finding - made after the Bush administration refused to move in either direction on the issue - means the EPA can take steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions - from cars, cows, oil refineries, power plants, factories and other large emitters.


That made environmentalists happy, but as usually is the case when jobs and profits can be affected, it made others mad.


Among them - and the first to take legal action - is the National Cattlemen's Beef Assn., which filed a challenge to the findings on Christmas eve.


The suit claims that the science backing the idea that greenhouse gases contribute heavily to global warming just isn't solid enough to support federal regulation of same.
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Tags: Emissions, Bobby Jindal, Carbon Dioxide, EPA, EPA Engdangerment Finding, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Louisiana, Methane, National Cattlemen's Beef Association

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EPA 'Endangerment' Finding on Greenhouse Gases Under Fire From Beef Industry, was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.