Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA's Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: issued a finding of “proposed endangerment ” from climate change caused by six greenhouse gases, with the largest contributions to warming resulting from emissions of carbon dioxide and methane (EPA 2009a). The EPA also referred to this document as a “proposed finding ” in response to a 2007 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, Massachusetts v. EPA, which empowered the EPA to make such a finding for greenhouse gases under existing law. This was the Court’s interpretation of Section 202 (a) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. In Proposed Endangerment, the EPA requested comments “on the data on which the proposed findings are based, the methodology used in obtaining and analyzing the data, and major legal interpreta-tions and policy considerations underlying the proposed findings”
Institution: Cato Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1576935693