Carbon Dioxide emission

It seems that America may actual decide to try and do something constructive when it comes to the environment. So far America has only really talked about ways to combat climate change and protect the environment, then takes actions that seem to contradict what they were saying. For example the government has been talking of looking for alternative fuels to use as a means of reducing our dependency on oil and helping the environment at the same time; however when oil prices sky rocket and supplies start to be less than demand one of the first options on the table is to drill in Alaskan wildlife reserves, which not only doesn’t help with our dependency on oil but would do drastic damage to a fragile ecosystem. The EPA now seems to be taking action, hopefully. The EPA has recently announced that they would look into putting regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, in an attempt to slow down climate change by reducing the introduction of new greenhouse gases. This plan will practically reverse a December memoranda on greenhouse gas regulations for new coal-fired power plants put in place by the Bush administration. The regulations on carbon dioxide emissions has be a hot debate between the energy community and environmentalist that has recently heated up “when the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide should be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.”
The industry has vigorously opposed efforts to regulate those emissions, asserting that the policy should be set by Congress. Moreover, technology for capturing carbon dioxide emissions is expensive and virtually untested.
On the other hand environmental groups have stated that without these regulations any new power plants using conventional technologies would guarantee large production of greenhouse emissions for their entire life time, which is between 30-40 years. I hope the EPA goes through with its plan for carbon dioxide emission regulations because we need to do something about the changing climate and we need to set an example for other nations to do the same thing.