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EPA Refutes Challenges to its Ability to Regulate Carbon

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A total of 10 petitions, including one from the US Chamber of Commerce, were sent to the EPA challenging its 2009 ruling that it can regulate greenhouse gases as a harmful pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Today, those 10 petitions were denied on grounds that its finding is still supported conclusively by sound science. The EPA's endangerment finding, which is backed by a landmark Supreme...Read the full story on TreeHugger