Quote:

---

What is “sustainability” in the first place? That is a question the study ducks, noting that it is only advising EPA on how to bring it within the agency’s canon.

The experts take their definition from an Obama Administration executive order of October, 2009, entitled Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance. It defines sustainability in sweeping fashion as the ability “to create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/19/epa-ponders-expanded-regula
tory-power-in-name-sustainable-development/#ixzz1h1UiFiBI

---

Quote:

---

The experts say they found the legal authority for EPA to foster sustainable development without further congressional approval in the wording of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or NEPA. The study says the law, the cornerstone of U.S. environmental policy, declared that the “continuing policy of the Federal Government” is to “create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/19/epa-ponders-expanded-regula
tory-power-in-name-sustainable-development/#ixzz1h1UqXtod

---