线练学校高三英语-自主招生辅导时文阅读(翻译).pdf

始驾州参艰市线练学校中学高三英语自主招生辅导 时文阅读（翻译） The EPA’s Move to Regulate Carbon: A Stopgap Solution On the long list of things that keep coal-industry executives awake at night is the possibility that the Environmental Protection A gency (EPA) will begin to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Now it seems that nightmare is at hand. On Feb. 17, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced that the agency would reconsider a Bush Administration decision not to regulate CO emissions from new coal power plants. The next day, 2 she backed up that statement by telling the New York Times she was considering acting on an April 2007 Supreme Court decision that empowers the EPA to regulate CO as a pollutant under the Clean 2 Air Act. “What this says is that the Clean Air Act already provides the government with the chance to do something about global-warming pollution,” says David Doniger, policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s climate center. “We have a right to expect the government to carry out the existing law.” However, carrying out the law will be anything but simple, nor will it be the most efficient way to protect the environment. The 2007 court case in question gave the EPA the authority to regulate CO , when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of 12 states, led by Massachusetts, that brought 2 suit against the government to force it to regulate greenhouse gases. The Bush Administration largely ignored the implications of that decision for the next two years, likely in part because of complaints from industry that regulationg CO would be expensive and maddeningly complicated. 2 As the law is written, using the Clean Air Act to re