NEI Nuclear Notes

We wonder if industries will have to affix Surgeon General labels on their plants : Having received White House backing, the Environmental Protection Agency declared Friday that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a significant threat to human health and thus will be listed as pollutants under the Clean Air Act — a policy the Bush administration rejected. You’ll remember that this became a point in the last election, with fears of backyard barbecues being shut down. But the intent is more likely this: The move could allow the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, but it's more likely that the Obama administration will use the action to prod Congress to pass regulations around a system to cap and then trade emissions so that they are gradually lowered. As you might expect, the usual suspects have lined up. One one side: The EPA should be required "to follow up with standards under the Clean Air Act, the nation's most effective environmental law, ...