Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin
Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky and Tomás
Carbonell
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Commentary
Just in time for the start at Copenhagen, the EPA is issuing
its finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas emissions
endanger public health and welfare. The "endangerment
finding" is a triggering event under the Clean Air Act,
setting the agency on a course for regulation that it will seek to
"tailor" and otherwise manage throughout 2010 . . .
President Obama now is going to Copenhagen for the finale on
December 18. The announcement suggests that the Administration has
determined that a good deal is in the works, and that the
President's pledge of a "provisional" emissions
target will pay off . . . China and India announced non-binding
intensity-based emission targets this week . . . The ultimate
judges of what constitutes success in