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Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act
URL: http://epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html

Description:
Documents concerning an April 2009 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal with findings that "the current and projected concentrations of the mix of six key greenhouse gases ... threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations" and that motor vehicle emissions "contribute to the atmospheric concentrations of these key greenhouse gases and hence to the threat of climate change." Contains the full proposal, background, and commenting and hearing details. From the EPA.

LII Topics: Environment, Global Warming

Publisher:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Extra Keywords
carbon dioxide CO2 methane nitrous oxide hydrofluorocarbons HFCs perfluorocarbons PFCs sulfur hexafluoride

LII Database Information:
Record 28251 created by Jennifer English on 04/17/2009
Last modification on 04/20/2009
Published: 04/23/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28251

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