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Article: Bush administration says it won't regulate carbon dioxide.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 28, 2003
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Byline: Seth Borenstein
WASHINGTON _ Carbon dioxide, the chief cause of global warming, cannot be regulated as a pollutant, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled Thursday.
The decision, which reverses a 1998 Clinton administration position, means the Bush administration won't be able to use the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from cars.
Had the Bush administration decided that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and harmful, it could have required expensive new pollution controls on new cars and perhaps on power plants, which together are the main sources of so-called greenhouse gases.
Environmentalists are expected to ...