Sometimes an intervention is needed to save an old friend, to convince them to change their destructive ways. That's how I feel about the U.S. EPA. The agency is in danger of irrelevancy and of losing its credibility on the environment. I hate to see a friend in crisis. In the past year, EPA lost a major lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court over whether CO_2 should be regulated as a pollutant; EPA denied permission to California and 17 other states seeking to control greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles (those states are now suing EPA); and the agency lost a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals over its plan to slow the regulation of mercury emissions from large coal-fired power plants.
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