Tracinski: “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”
Posted at FoxNews.com: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Tags: [environmentalism, epa, global warming, tracinski]Consider the implications of the court’s ruling that the EPA can be sued in the courts to require it to regulate carbon dioxide as a “pollutant.” Carbon dioxide is not an incidental byproduct of the generation of power. It is the unavoidable product of our most widely used fuels, fuels for which there is no practical alternative: oil, coal, natural gas. So to cap or reduce carbon dioxide emissions would require a vast regime of government controls on all levels, from giant factories down to backyard barbecues. To cap or reduce carbon dioxide emissions is to cap or reduce American prosperity.