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Bloomberg.com -- The White House is reviewing a proposed finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health, which could lead to new restrictions on cars and coal-fired power plants.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that carbon dioxide could be restricted by the government under the Clean Air Act, and ordered the EPA to determine whether the emissions endangered the public. Former President George W. Bush declined to curb the emissions.

U.S. Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who heads House global warming panels, said in a written statement that the EPA finding “will officially end the era of denial on global warming.”