As much as I may disagree with certain Obama decisions, I have no doubt that we are better off with him in office rather than McCain. The environment is yet another issue where we can find common ground that never would have been possible under a Republican administration, no matter what they suggested during the campaign. MSNBC.com:
The Obama administration on Tuesday agreed to review whether it should regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, portending a major reversal of the Bush administration's policy on global warming.
The Environmental Protection Agency granted a petition from environmental groups seeking to overturn a rule that prohibited controls on these emissions under the Clean Air Act.
"This decision stops the Bush administration's final, last-minute effort to saddle President Obama with its do-nothing policy on global warming," Sierra Club lawyer David Bookbinder said in a statement.
"With coal-fired power plants emitting more than 30 percent of our global warming pollution, regulating their carbon dioxide is essential to making real progress in the fight against global warming," he added.
The petition was filed by the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund. The groups had sued to overturn the Bush-era rule in court, but said the litigation would now be put on hold as a result of the EPA decision.
