BEND OVER AND GRAB YOUR ANKLES AMERICA HERE IT COMES.

In an announcement timed to coincide with EARTH DAY the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposal today finding greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare. That will almost certainly trigger a series of sweeping and costly regulations affecting everything from vehicles to power plants raising fuel and electricity costs.

In a statement issued at noon Friday, EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson said, “This finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.”

Predictable Jackson said, “This pollution problem has a solution — one that will create millions of green jobs and end our country’s dependence on foreign oil.” So far, almost no so-called green job has generated profits that can pay for such jobs without heavy taxpayer subsidies. The catch-22 is with such jobs there are no taxes to pay for those subsidies.

The EPA identifies six gases — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluorid — as contributing to global warming. Much of her contention is junk science and political hackery.

Nevertheless the finding can lead to such things as methane filters attached to cow and pig deirieres, and all sorts of onerous regulations on cars and trucks killing off the scraps of America’s auto companies.

The EPA’s  Jacksonsaid its finding took into account “the disproportionate impact climate change has on the health of certain segments of the population, such as the poor, the very young, the elderly, those already in poor health, the disabled, those living alone and/or indigenous populations dependent on one or a few resources.”

Global warming also poses an national security threat linked mostly to oil importation, the statement added, as well as an environmental one.

The move, comes almost exactly two years after the U. S. Supreme Court ordered the agency to examine whether emissions linked to climate change should be curbed under the Clean Air Act, marks a major shift in the federal government’s approach to global warming.

Former president George W. Bush and his deputies opposed putting mandatory limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases on the grounds that it would crush the economy; Congress is considering legislation that would do so but it remains unclear whether the proposal has enough support for passage in the near future.

Late last month EPA sent the White House a formal finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare; the Office of Management and Budget signed off on the determination Monday.

Obama pledged to limit greenhouse gases as a candidate, but he has urged Congress to send him a bill that would cap them and allow emitters to trade pollution allowances nationwide. Economist say that so-called “cap and trade” scheme would amount to crippling new taxes on businesses.  

Jackson, in a speech at the Aspen Environment Forum last month, emphasized that Obama still hopes the country will develop a legislative answer to the question of how best to limit greenhouse gases.

“The best solution, and I believe this in my heart, is to work with Congress to form and pass comprehensive legislation to deal with climate change,” Jackson said. ” We hope to avert a regulatory thicket where governments and businesses spend an inordinate amount of time fighting. We are not looking for a doomsday solution.”

The EPA report on the proposed endangerment finding states, “In both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem.”

Economist estimate annual cost as high as $10,000 per America is the full scope of all the climate change proposal kicked in or over $3 trillion per year.