Pacific Legal Foundation Files Petition Asking EPA to Reconsider Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

The Pacific Legal Foundation has joined the growing number of organizations that are petitioning EPA to reconsider its finding that greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, are pollutants that should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The petition is found here. It relies heavily on the emails that were obtained from the Climate Research Unit that indicate a good deal of skulduggery in the development of the alarming predictions regarding global warming. The web posting says in part:

Through its greenhouse gas “endangerment finding,” the EPA bureaucracy has set itself up as the potential overseer for all economic activity that relies on fossil fuels—from agriculture to energy development to transportation, manufacturing, and industrial production.
PLF now is challenging this EPA ruling. In an administrative petition to the agency, PLF argues that the process that yielded the endangerment finding has been called into question by what is popularly known as “Climategate.” Therefore, EPA’s own rules require reassessment by the agency’s Scientific Advisory Board.

Significant revelations suggest that the scientific data that was used to arrive at the endangerment finding may be unreliable. For this reason, as PLF’s petition argues, a formal reconsideration of the endangerment finding must be undertaken.