EPA to Issue Carbon Dioxide Rule, Obama Climate Czar Says

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Source: Wall Street Journal

* FEBRUARY 22, 2009, 9:54 A.M. ET

EPA to Issue Carbon Dioxide Rule, Obama Climate Czar Says

By IAN TALLEY

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's climate czar said Sunday the Environmental Protection Agency would soon issue a rule on regulation of carbon dioxide, finding that it represents a danger to the public.

The White House is pressing Congress to draft and pass legislation that would cut greenhouse gases by 80% of 1990 levels by 2050, threatening to use authorities under the Clean Air Act if legislators don't move fast enough or create strong enough provisions.

Carol Browner, Obama's special adviser on climate change and energy, also said the administration was seeking to establish a national standard for auto emissions that could mean tougher efficiency mandates for automakers.

"EPA's going to look at Mass. Vs. EPA and will make an endangerment finding," Browner told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA in the case to determine if carbon dioxide endangered public health or welfare.

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