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Agency issues warning of ‘substantial' health threats, after refusing to regulate pollutants. By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin House Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee Chairman Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., right, walks with producer George Lucas on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2008, for a hearing on the future of universal service, a baseline level of affordable voice communications, in light of the rise of Internet based broadband communication technologies and the changing marketplace. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) WASHINGTON -- Climate change will pose “substantial” threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday – issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just days after the agency declined to regulate the pollutants... [read full story]
