Posted on 06/06/2010 10:37:55 AM PDT by Qbert
DEER PARK – Gov. Rick Perry today was joined by local government and business leaders to decry Washington's latest attempt to extend federal control over the state's authority, an action that would undermine Texas’ successful clean air programs and cost the state thousands of jobs. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its efforts to take over Texas’ federally delegated, successful Title V permitting program and replace it with a less effective Washington-based, bureaucratic led, command and control mandate.
“Last week, the federal government sent the very clear message that it seeks to destroy Texas’s successful clean air program and threaten tens of thousands of good Texas jobs in the process. The EPA seems to believe that federal controls and bureaucracy are more important than clean air results.” Gov. Perry said. “Texas’ common-sense approach to air quality permitting works because it avoids the damage caused by Washington’s command and control approach, while cleaning the air, helping create jobs and growing our state economy.”
In response to the EPA’s announcement last week, Gov. Perry sent a letter urging President Barack Obama to stop the agency’s excessive overreach into Texas’ permitting process, which would kill thousands of Texas jobs and derail a program that has effectively cleaned Texas' air.
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The air Texans breathe today is significantly cleaner than it was in 2000. As Texas added much of the nation’s job, population and economic growth, the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions, compared to an eight percent reduction in national ozone levels and a 27 percent reduction in national NOX levels between 2000 and 2008. Additionally, no county in Texas is in nonattainment for fine particulate matter, one of the pollutants with the greatest impact on human health.
(Excerpt) Read more at governor.state.tx.us ...
Perry better start yelling at the top of his lungs! I want to hear a daily deluge on BAma and how his policies are opposite of where Texas is, if not see you Perry.
He should throw them out of his state.
If he can’t throw them out of Texas, he should make live VERY uncomfortable for them. It’s all talk, until you actually DO SOMETHING to back it up!
The list, ping
Back it up Perry.
These types of cases are what the state militia is for.
The EPA has nothing to do with air quality or the enviroment. It is a job killing agency designed to destroy capitalism and reduce the quality of living in America to third world standards.
Talk is cheap - and the time for talking is over. Have Perry arrest the revenooers and this usurpation of power will end.
EPA BS objection: http://www.epa.gov/region6/6pd/air/pd-r/objectionletters/flint_hills032610-o1272.pdf (one of many)
Texas reaction: http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/comm_exec/communication/media/5-10flinthillsreact
EPA threat: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A1037383
“Talk is cheap - and the time for talking is over. Have Perry arrest the revenooers and this usurpation of power will end.”
He has not the Nads.
As I recall, back in the early 20th century, the agencies were given the power in a back-handed way to make regulations that were not specifically authorized in Congressional Act. If Congress does not like the regulation, then they can pass a law correcting the action by the Executive. I belive that needs to change. We are being regulated into serfdom to the government and to the large corporations that can afford to comply.
There is one rule of a bureaucracy and that is that it is an organism that will grow bigger and survive its own usefullness. You never give it the authority to govern. That action should be by elected representatives only. The agencies are given their power and authority by Congress. It is only the agency head who reports to the Executive in the execution of the law, not in the making of it. That is what limited government is all about.
“That is what limited government is all about.”
You’re right, but we seem to have fallen away from that wisdom, courtesy of our elected officials!
...and to give bureaucrats another way to destroy our individuality.
Looks like they are going to try and take some of the assumed power back from the agencies:
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Senators to Vote on Whether to Cede Congressional Authority to the EPA
Washington, D.C. - Senators will soon consider a resolution to pare back an Environmental Protection Agency plan to regulate greenhouse gases - a plan that would raise energy costs.
On June 10, the U.S. Senate will consider a “resolution of disapproval” regarding a 2009 ruling made by the EPA in late 2009 claiming six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. This makes these gases — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride — subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act.
“The EPA’s endangerment finding endangers our economy and our liberty,” said Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network. “The EPA’s effort to regulate greenhouse gases will affect virtually every aspect of our economy and our lives. In expert opinion, this will result in higher energy costs and job losses while having — by their own admission — virtually no effect on cooling global climate.”
Senate Joint Resolution 26, introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), would use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the administrative ruling. This would allow elected representatives to deliberate and pass their own regulations as Congress sees fit.
“I don’t want an unelected bureaucrat imposing rules and regulations on businesses that are essentially a tax on energy and will be passed along to consumers — many of whom are just getting by as it is,” said Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
“Opposition to the cap-and-trade bill that was jammed through the House of Representatives is one of the key positions of the tea parties, and this endangerment finding is cap-and-trade by other means,” noted Deneen Borelli. “Americans are already skeptical enough of lawmakers these days. Watching them pass up an opportunity to do what they were sent to Washington for will restore no lost faith in the government.”
“This resolution is a major indicator of where our republic is headed. Senators will determine if they are going to cede their authority as an elected representative of the people to largely unaccountable bureaucrats,” added Tom Borelli. “While the White House is eager for the EPA to seize regulatory authority, rank-and-file Americans such as those found in the tea party movement are troubled and will be watching to see who will be for and who will be against this massive federal power grab.”
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