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EPA likely to delay climate rules for new power plants
Washington Post ^ | March 15, 2013 | By Juliet Eilperin

Posted on 03/15/2013 1:32:08 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The Obama administration is leaning toward revising its landmark proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, according to several individuals briefed on the matter, a move that would delay tougher restrictions and could anger many environmentalists.

The discussions center on the first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for power plants, which were proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency nearly a year ago. Rewriting the proposal would significantly delay any action, and might allow the agency to set a separate standard for coal-fired power plants, which are roughly twice as polluting as those fueled by natural gas.

While the move could bolster the administration’s legal justification for regulating power plants’ carbon emissions, any retreat on the rules would be a blow to environmental groups and their supporters, who constituted a crucial voting block for President Obama and other Democrats in last year’s elections. . .

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To: Popman

Except for them of course. Living like that is just for us unwashed masses.


21 posted on 03/16/2013 9:18:23 AM PDT by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There are ‘climate rules’?Really? Rules without ANY evidnce that man is responsible for climate change? And we’re allowing this as a nation? QWe’re just allowing peopel in power to make up any lame ‘laws’ they liek regardless of whether there is any actual evidence or not? We truly are lost as a nation if we’re ghoign to keep allowing people in power to extort money from us liek this without due cause!


22 posted on 03/16/2013 10:31:12 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Just what America needs to scuttle our own energy independece. The EPA should be reduced by 90% and just worry about cleaning up the water supply. If they ever got that right we might have confidence in them.


23 posted on 03/17/2013 10:11:40 AM PDT by Rapscallion (The people sense what Obama has in store for America.)
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