EPA takes big step to reduce C[O.sub.2] "pollution".

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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to move forward with the ruling that the carbon pollution causing global warming is a danger to the public health and welfare. This action will enable the EPA to begin implementing the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that C[O.sub.2] can be curbed under the Clean Air Act.

"At long last, the EPA has officially recognized that carbon pollution is harmful to our health and to the climate. The heat-trapping pollution from our cars and power plants leads to killer heat waves, stronger hurricanes, higher smog levels, and many other direct and indirect threats to human health;' states David Doniger, policy director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, and its attorney in the Supreme...