Posted on 11/26/2015 6:32:26 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Over 600 Democrat politicians from 32 states have joined together to oppose the centerpiece of Pres. Obama's climate change agenda, the Clean Power Plan.
"As Democrats committed to a prosperous America and a healthy environment, we believe the United States has a unique opportunity to lead the world in addressing the global climate challenge, and yet do so, as we must, without unduly burdening the American economy or the American people," the Democratic coalition called CoalBlue said in a letter sent Tuesday to Obama.
"The letter was signed by 626 state and local officials from nearly three dozen states, including 177 state legislators, 278 local elected officials and 148 Democratic Party officials," the Washington Examiner reports.
These leaders believe the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules regarding carbon emissions will cause great harm to the economy:
Unfortunately, the EPA's recently published rules for new and existing electric generating units severely miss the mark in many important regards. Taken together, they endanger the continued development of critical carbon-mitigating technologies necessary to achieve sustainability, threaten the reliability of the U.S. power grid, and place significant economic burdens on the American economy and the American people, in the form of higher energy costs and a potentially less reliable electric grid, without achieving any meaningful reductions in global CO2 emissions.
"The EPA, while well intentioned, has lost sight of the importance of preserving affordable and reliable energy in its pursuit of clean energy," the Democrat leaders add.
As reported by Western Journalism, the EPA's Clean Power Plan calls for a 30 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by the nation's power industry by 2030.
The energy sources that will be impacted the most by the new regulations are coal and natural gas. Currently, the United States derives 39 percent of its energy from coal, 27 percent from natural gas, 19 percent from nuclear, 6 percent from hydroelectric, and 7 percent from other renewables (mostly wind power).
The president has stated that his plans for the energy sector will necessarily cause utility rates to "skyrocket" and result in the closure of coal-fired power plants.
The Heritage Foundation released a study last fall that found the EPA regulations the Obama administration has announced in order to achieve its climate change goals would reduce the United States' Gross Domestic Product by $2.5 trillion by 2030. Further, employment levels would "track nearly 300,000 jobs below the no-carbon-regulation baseline in an average year, with some years seeing an employment deficit of more than 1 million jobs."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that a typical U.S. household could lose about $3,400 in disposable income per year, with a combined loss for all households of $586 billion by 2030, due to Obama’s new EPA climate change regulations.
The report by the Institute for Energy Research concludes that the "EPA's regulations impose huge costs for small benefits. The agency's ozone rule could be the single costliest regulation in U.S. history…Meanwhile, EPA's CO2 rule will impose double-digit electricity rate hikes for residents of 43 states, but limit global warming by just 0.02 degrees Celsius. The solution is for EPA to withdraw its proposed ozone and CO2 rules."
The Senate voted last week for two resolutions (both 52-48) blocking the implementation of Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), with Democrats Joe Machin (W.Va.) and Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) siding with Republicans. The House will likely take up the resolutions next week, while the president travels to Paris to take part in the U.N. Conference on Climate Change. The White House has promised Obama will veto the congressional resolutions.
Twenty-four states have joined together to sue the Obama's EPA to block implementation of a new CPP rule regarding CO2 emissions.
Wow. I can now say that “Democrats are revolting,” and mean it in more ways than one.
Since when does O’Bummer care what the ‘Little People’ think??
That comes to less than four legislators per state, a trifle. Obama doesn’t care about mayors and alderman, and little more about party officials. This pushback is pathetically small.
I’m still trying to figure out why any “normal” person would want to call their self a Democrat after the last 7 years or so? Do they really hate Conservatives that much to abandon all sense of decency? Or, as most sane people have surmised, liberals are mentally unhinged.....
Yes. Their hatred has become their insanity. They have NO connection to logic, truth, nor values.
$1 says this article won’t appear anytime soon in the NYT or Wash Compost.
I figured as much. I’m just talking out loud.
What amazes me though, I work at a large corporation, side by by side with these enlightened individuals every day. Their ignorance of facts is just simply astounding.
Breaking news:
Kenyan pissed in the ocean and caused Global Flooding.
Wymyn and chilren hit hardest.
Taxes going up.
Deeeveloping!
Oh, aaaaand 95% of scientwists agree after collecting biiiig bonus.
Ping for later.
The Clean Power Plan, a.k.a. Latest Obamaconomy Jobs Killer. Thanks UMCRevMom@aol.com.
The Democrats better revolt against Obama, because he has been destroying the Democrat Party with each day that he stays in office!!! Obama could care less about the Democrat Party and African-Americans....who will suffer economic slavery, because of him using them as political pawns, while he degrades their standard of living to the worst status ever!!!
Obama is simply....a “Turncoat & Traitor” to his political party, his African-American brothers/sisters and all Americans across this great country!!!
The Democrats rally have no choice.....thy either force Obama to resign or, impeach him...or they will suffer massive political loses in the November, 2016 election!!! Heed this advice Democrats!!! Open your eyes, Democrats.....Obama is destroying your political party....big time, right in front of your failing to see eyes!!!
That's just about $283 per month. My current billing for electricity and natural gas is running about $214 to $230 per month. This illegal rule making by executive fiat is more than doubling my current costs for energy.
The logic being that utilities are allowed a monopoly status because the very idea of a utility eliminates competition as having two competing utilities serving the same customers doubles the costs of the required capital plant.
The Utilities Commission negotiated with the Utility Owners to establish an acceptable profit margin which allows the owners (bond holders) a legitimate profit w/out scalping the customers.
The resident in the White hut as thrown the old pricing scheme to the dogs and the result is rates will inevitably double.
Regards,
GtG
Time to take it to the rooftops?
That was merely to calm their sheep. And Obama knew it.
Global Warming PING!
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