The Obama administration has been explicit about how its decision to have the Environmental Protection Agency regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant was meant as a threat to Congress.

Its message was clear: Pass job-killing cap-and-trade legislation or accept more onerous (and more job-killing!) “command and control” regulation of the economy by bureaucrats at the EPA.

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