For instance, while the E.P.A. has been determined to have the authority to regulate carbon emissions, the administration would rather have a market-based system of pollution permits, called cap and trade, that requires legislation.
"It all leaves the president with a delicious irony and that is: In order to garner support for a bill that is intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the administration is willing to expand the very substance that causes those emissions in the first place," Mr. Tursi said.
Given emergent evidence to suggest that dietary yeast supplementations might also mitigate ruminant enteric methane emissions, the administration of probiotic yeast biomass could also offer an economically feasible way of reducing atmospheric CH4.
Here is a typical response to Obama's announcement, this from Frank Tursi from the North Carolina Coastal Federation: "To garner support for a bill that is intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the administration is willing to expand the very substance that causes those emissions in the first place.
We now present a novel approach for in vivo detection of β-galactosidase using optical imaging to detect light emission following administration of the chemiluminescent 1,2-dioxetane substrate Galacto-Light PlusTM.
For the second Friday in a row, seeking to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration proposed updating 30-year-old rules governing fossil fuel extraction.
Congress is considering several bills setting mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions; the Bush administration remains committed to voluntary actions.
In 1999, the governor promised to order significant changes at older power plants that would cut mercury emissions, but his administration has yet to produce those regulations.
Given all that, one would assume that Mr. Johnson is at last ready to champion a national program of controls on greenhouse gas emissions, something the administration has long resisted.
For the past eight years, the United States has refused to accept binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a Bush administration policy that President Barack Obama has said he will overturn.
