Posted on 05/13/2010 1:35:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming.
The EPA said it is completing a rule requiring large polluters to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that they release into the air. Those emissions can exacerbate asthma and other breathing problems.
The rule would require companies to install better technology and improve energy efficiency whenever they build, or significantly modify, a plant.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the rule applies only to large polluters such as power plants, refineries and cement production facilities that collectively are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
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Lets move to regulate the EPA.
the rule applies only to large polluters such as power plants, refineries and cement production facilities that collectively are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
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They’ll around to the other 30% soon enough... got to set your priorities, yaknow.. like Obama and the ‘Jobs are #1 priority’ focused like a laser regime..
get
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That should’nt result in too much of a problem for these companies. Just mass firings due to expense. All by design of course.
This problem has a rather simple solution. Do not build or modify facilities. Of course, the EPA will effectively force modifications through other regulations and other forms of coercion. The companies can close facilities and import the fuel or just charge customers if possible.
Bullshit. Sulfur dioxide and other real pollutants can exacerbate asthma, but carbon dioxide does no such thing. It feeds plants and that's about it.
It will in countries like China, India, and Mexico. Which is what the liberals want.
Hey...WASHINGTON....THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING.
And we are NOT buying your “Climate Change”, “Cap & Trade” OR “AMERICAN POWER ACT” BS...so shove it.
You’ve been found out, we are awake and we’ve had enough!!! Pfffft
Well, thats not going to slow them down.
Might makes right. :-{
Greenhouse gases like, say, water vapor???
Since this EPA ruling is based on total Bravo Sierra, could this not be challenged and correspendingly overturned by the courts (Like that matters to 0 re: FCC)
The EPA is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant the federal government the power to regulate energy. It needs to be abolished.
The regulatory threshold under the Clean Air Act is 250 tons per year.
EPA said they would "tailor the reg" so that only those companies emitting(or, as some say, spewing) 25,000 tons would be regulated. At the 25,000 ton threshold, about 12,000 companies would be regulated.
Now, they have "tailored" the reg even further and the threshold is 75,000 tons.
You mean the same court that ruled that CO2 is a pollutant and it's emmissions can be regulated by the EPA? Good luck with that.
The magical "Commerce Clause"! It covers EVERYTHING dontchaknow
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