McCain adviser reaffirms Bush position that Clean Air Act shouldn’t be used to halt greenhouse gas emissions
· McCain’s senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin reaffirmed the Bush Administration position that the Clean Air Act should not be used to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Grist notes that Obama’s position is actually to see if Congress can put together climate legislation in the first 18 months, and if not, to then use the Clean Air Act, as the Supreme Court has held is appropriate.
e360 disagrees with even this position, urging that “Rather than wait for action by Congress, the next president should employ an existing tool for tackling climate change: using the Clean Air Act to control greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a national cap-and-trade program.”
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