The Refinishing Touch Blog

As the climate conference gets underway in Copenhagen, new reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that greenhouse gases not only damage the environment, but are a threat to public health, with findings that demonstrate climate change not only affects weather patterns such as droughts, hurricanes and heat waves, but it also degrades the quality of air that we breathe.

The EPA was tasked to determine the effects of greenhouse gases on public health by the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the agency had to issue an endangerment finding, or evidence that carbon emissions endanger the health and well-being of the public, in order to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

These results of the EPA study continue to add fuel to the fire that has given way to the United Nations’ climate conference. Hopefully, once these findings are presented at the conference, the world leaders gathered there will work even harder to find solutions that will bring more environmentally sustainable actions to more countries worldwide.

Today the media is full of reports from Copenhagen, and tomorrow we’ll be providing an overview of the key news to come out so far.