Court upholds EPA emission standards

Associated Press ^ | Apr. 15, 2014 4:05 PM EDT | Pete Yost

[Olog-hai]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's first emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants.

In its ruling, the court rejected state and industry challenges to rules designed to clean up chromium, arsenic, acid gases, nickel, cadmium as well as mercury and other dangerous toxins.

The EPA’s determination in 2000 that regulating emission standards is appropriate and necessary, and the agency’s reaffirmation of that determination in 2012, “are amply supported by EPA’s findings regarding the health effects of mercury exposure,” said the court.

Congress did not specify what types or levels of public health risks should be deemed a hazard under federal law. By leaving this gap in the statute, Congress delegated to the EPA the authority to give reasonable meaning to the term “hazard,” said the court. …

[Olog-hai]

Congress delegated to the executive branch, says the federal appeals court? Never mind no auditing of the EPA’s “findings” and saying that unilateral approach is just fine.

[fwdude]

Nixon’s baby?

[HiTech RedNeck]

A GOP Congress could possibly ease this or require tighter science.

It seems the mood of the Court more and more when faced with such political stinkballs is: Congress must fix it, we can only read it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There were crying enough reasons in Nixon’s day to care about it; unfortunately it also opened the door to junk science.

[Darren McCarty]

Yep. Nixon was an awful president. Wage freezes, EPA, OSHA, Affirmative Action, dirty tricks.

Sounds like Obama.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But Obama wasn’t impeached.

[fwdude]

Why were we so much more compliant about open socialism in the early 70’s?

Bears studying.

[Hojczyk]

In the 1970 s you had dirty air and water....EPA should have shut down in the late 1980s. ....and the states. Taken over...there job is to write laws or be fired.

[mad_as_he$$]

Neither was Nixon.

[terycarl]

the most dangerous group of people in this country are federal court judges....they have power FAR beyond their abilities.

[SunkenCiv]

The EPA’s Science Problem: Startling revelations about the agency’s misrepresentation of data.
Frontpage Mag | 04/15/2014 | Arnold Ahlert
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