This is nothing but a extra-legislative tax hike by executive fiat. It is all about controling the American people and keeping the price of middle Eastern oil high.
Over many decades, regulatory agencies have morphed into a fourth branch of government and the EPA is king of this heap.
1st qtr, 2014 U.S. economic growth was at .01% or less indicating that the economic goal of “Sustainable Development/Agenda 21” as adopted by the U.S. has largely been met. This also fulfills the machiavellian wish of Maurice Strong, UN Chairman of UNCED aka The Rio Earth Summit where in 1992 he articulated the intentions of the “Plan for the 21st Century- Sustainable Development/Agenda 21” by saying this in regard to our “unsustainable” high consumption of natural resources which is, according to them destroying the Earth; “...isn’t it our responsibility to bring about the collapse of the industrialized countries?” Now, to become truly as “Sustainable” as perhaps Bangladesh, more vital work is quickly needed to further collapse and “Degrow” the economy. This will be accomplished with draconian restrictions on business and energy use which will be mandated by arbitrary regulations spawned by the bogus hype to save the planet from the dread effects of antropogenic Global Warming aka Climate Change aka Climate Disruption.
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/sustainableprosperity/resources/clubfordegrowth/
I’d like the person (Ted Cruz?) announcing the cuts to able to explain it this way...
“We’ve cut the agency by 90% in hopes they will learn to focus on actual clean air and clean water policies, rather than inventing problems, where none exist, for the sole purpose of justifying their existence.”
Not Charles de Gaulle but NERO!
Wonder which purse the Occupant keeps Congress’ balls in?
DISMANTLE THE EPA!
Can the plant owners SUE over this as a breach of the US Constitution by NOT going through the legislature??