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CLIMATE CHANGE
EPA wraps up emissions report
The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final scientific finding on greenhouse gases to the White House, agency officials said Monday, a step that could trigger regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
Sources said the document concludes that emissions pose a threat to the public's health and welfare. The agency did not release its finding, which was issued as a draft in April. The Office of Management and Budget has 90 days to sign off on it.
Environmentalists embraced the move as a sign that the Obama administration is moving ahead on global warming policy less than a month before U.N.-sponsored climate-change talks begin in Copenhagen. An official with the National Association of Manufacturers said his members are worried that the administration would put in place rules on greenhouse gases before Congress had a chance to pass climate legislation.
The endangerment finding was prompted by a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that ordered the EPA to determine whether greenhouse gases constituted a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
-- Juliet Eilperin
TILLER SHOOTING
Defendant says killing was justified
The man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed Monday to the killing, saying he plans to argue at his trial that it was justified.
In a telephone call from jail to the Associated Press, Scott Roeder said: "Because of the fact pre-born children's lives were in imminent danger, this was the action I chose." The 51-year-old Kansas City man is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the May 31 shooting of George Tiller at the abortion provider's Wichita church.
"I have been told so far at least four women have changed their minds, that I know of, and have chosen to have the baby," Roeder said. "So even if one changed her mind it would be worth it. No, I don't have any regrets."
