BushCo throws up straw men to fight having to fight global warming

The Bush Administration is officially disavowing the Environmental Protection Agency’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking about using the Clean Air Act to fight global warming. A joint letter from the secretaries of agriculture, commerce, transportation and energy, rejects the idea of using the act to regulate greenhouse gases, for example.

“Our agencies have serious concerns with this suggestion because it does not recognize the enormous — and we believe, insurmountable — burdens, difficulties, and costs, and likely limited benefits, of using the Clean Air Act to regulate GHG emissions.”

First, this ignores the EPA’s own estimate of potential economic benefits from GHG control, as much as $2 trillion worldwide, and here in the U.S., recouping costs on the easiest parts of the solution in no more than seven years.

Outside of auto transportation, MIT has invented a new solar concentrator that could be far better than current solar panels.

So, the White House-orchestrated attempt to undercut the EPA is the usual anti-environmentalist pack of lies.