Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming

Last week, the U.S. EPA released a grim, 284-page study (pdf) that concluded that climate change will cause "substantial" threats to the health of the American public.

And yet, one week prior to the report’s release, the agency ruled that it will not regulate harmful greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, ignoring its own warnings that emissions will endanger the public welfare.

It shouldn’t have. Excerpts from the EPA’s own findings: