Environment Iowa : Give Clean Cars the green light!
By Nathaniel Baer, Environment Iowa
While the federal government has been sitting on its hands when it comes to global warming, the states have been busy. In addition to increasing our use of renewable energy in states all across the country, 12 states have adopted policies to put cleaner cars on the road.
In order to implement these laws, the states need the EPA to give the green light. They've been dragging their feet on this decision for a year and a half, and I think you'll agree that it's about time to take action.
The EPA is accepting public comments until June 15 to hear from citizens like you on the issue. Let them know that you want states to be able to take the lead in reducing global warming pollution by implementing their Clean Cars standards. Click on the link below or copy and paste it into your web browser to submit your comment today. Then, ask your friends to do the same by sharing this message with them.
https://www.environmentiowa.org/action/global-warming/clean-cars?id4=ES
Background
From more frequent heat waves to rising sea levels, global warming poses significant threats communities across the country. The good news is that solutions to reduce global warming pollution are at our finger tips-we just need to put them to use.
The states have been at the forefront of action to reduce global warming pollution. One of the most important steps that the states have taken is to tackle emissions from cars and SUVs, which are the second largest source of global warming emissions nationwide.
Specifically, California and 11 other states have adopted tailpipe standards to reduce global warming pollution from cars and SUVs, amounting to one-third of the U.S. auto market. However, in order to implement the standards, California-and the other states-need a stamp of approval (called a Clean Air Act “waiver”) from the EPA, and the Bush EPA has been sitting on the decision for nearly a year and a half.
The auto industry, however, has fought these common sense solutions every step of the way, and are now lobbying the EPA do deny the states the approval needed to implement these common sense solutions.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month-in which the Court found that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants are indeed “air pollutants” and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act-compelled the Bush EPA to move forward in its decision on the state clean cars standards.
Fortunately, the administration is required by law to hear what the public thinks before it makes its decision.
The EPA is accepting public comments until June 15 to hear from citizens like you on the issue. Let them know that you want states to be able to take the lead in reducing global warming pollution by implementing their Clean Cars standards. Click on the link below or copy and paste it into your web browser to submit your comment today. Then, ask your friends to do the same by sharing this message with them.
https://www.environmentiowa.org/action/global-warming/clean-cars?id4=ES
Sincerely,
Nathaniel Baer
Environment Iowa Advocate
NathanielB@environmentiowa.org
http://www.environmentiowa.org
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There are too many global warming deniers out there, it seems like more and more every day, calling the anti-emissions movement a global swindle and hoax, a myth, a conspiracy of depopulationists, global government types, and self-serving politicians like Paul Watson, Maurice Strong and Al Gore; and saying that we believers and activists are zealots of some new “Ecotheist” religion; that we are dupes, victims of pop-culture hysteria – and worse! They seek to obscure the facts and deny the consensus about the most critical issue of our time and the direst threat ever faced by our precious Mother Earth!
I would love to see a skilled writer tackle some of these books and review/debunk them. These books distract from the fact the debate has long been over and the time for action is now. We are running out of time to get the populace fully behind this. We can't just ignore these heretics and traitors. Everyone who is concerned about this issue should read some of these books to see what their enemies are up to.
“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism” by Christopher C. Horner.
“Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming”, by Patrick J. Michaels
“Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years”, by Dennis T. Avery
“Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media”, by Patrick J. Michaels
“The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming”, by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr.
“The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World”, by Bjorn Lomborg
“The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change”, by Henrik Svensmark
“Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death”, by Ronald Baily
“Global Warming – Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology”, by Marcel Leroux
“Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming”, by S. George Philander
“Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming”, by Thomas Gale Moore
“It's the Sun, Not Your SUV: Co2 Will Not Destroy the Earth”, by John Zyrkowski
“Global Warming: The Truth Behind the Myth”, by Michael L. Parsons
“Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial”, by Mihkel M. Mathiesen
“Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints”, by Tamara L. Roleff
“Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense?”, by Dixie Lee Ray
“Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate”, by S. Fred Singer
“Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming”, by Christopher Essex
“Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, and Environmentalism”, by Ben Bolch
“Silencing Science”, by Steven Milloy
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds”, by Charles Mackay
“State of Fear” by Michael Chrichton
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