In an exclusive story, Fox News reports that EPA “wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions in a way that could give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of ‘sustainable development’.”
The whole story is here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/19/epa-ponders-expanded-regulatory-power-in-name-sustainable-development/?test=latestnews
In June of 2012, the UN is holding a global conference in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20). EPA has prepared this “Green Book” looking forward to that summit, although the agency “has no current plans” to unveil its new ideas then.
As the definition of what constitutes sustainable development is rather nebulous and even the Green Book avoids discussing how it is defined, people are wondering if this is, as the study concludes, a way for “the agency to become more anticipatory, making greater use of new science and of forecasting.”