Posted on 11/26/2014 1:46:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for ozone, expected to be released Wednesday, are already being met with opposition from conservative lawmakers.
In a statement released Tuesday night, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone will face “rigorous oversight” in the Congress.
“EPA's proposal to lower the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) to between 65 parts per billion and 70 ppb will lower our nation's economic competitiveness and stifle job creation for decades," he said.
"The EPA's previously proposed Ozone standard came with a price tag of up to $90 billion per year, by EPA's own estimation. In 2011, President Obama pulled back on the 2010 proposal due to high costs and the potential of a detrimental impact to American businesses. Now the EPA is proposing an equally aggressive standard while failing to even be advised about the potential cost of lowering the standard.”
If EPA adopts a 60 parts per billion rule, Inhofe said Oklahoma will lose 14,000 well-paying jobs, compliance costs will reach $846 million and household electricity bills across the state will increase by 15 percent to an average of $660 per year.
Every administrative regulation is a violation of Article I Section 1, which created the American Republic. We’ve been reduced to the pathetic condition of having to pass laws to repeal unconstitutional regulations.
One of Mark Levin’s liberty amendments would gut the administrative state.
A joint committee of congress shall review and approve all executive branch regulations that exceed $100 million in economic burden. There is a six month window. If the committee does not approve within that time, the regulation dies.
Article V now.
The EPA management is nothing but a gang of criminals. None of them know how to spell ‘science’, but they want to impose insane standards - supposedly based on science - on the good people of the USofA. I hope Inhofe shoves this right down their throats.
Not that I am against the Liberty amendments but
The EPA will simply learn to lie better and Democrats in congress will learn to believe and defend the lies better.
How, exactly? By ‘looking’ at their rules/regulations?
I didn’t read/hear about 0’ing out their budget, alone removing them from the budget entirely. Did he site some former President’s rise-from-whole-cloth beginning? Maybe even that the Congress, let alone the EPA, has NO authority over the Earth, wind, fire, water??
My reading comprehension must have been on the fritz.
Simple solution: next budget, EPA, 20% budget cut. If these regulations are still a problem, year after that, 20% more. The rest of the (still working) citizenry worries about their jobs all of the time - why not them?
Unless “examine” is code for Spit Can it and defund the EPA he is wasting his time.
According to this, rural Tennessee exceeds the new proposed level already...
http://www.sciencetime.org/ConstructedClimates/chap-4-emissions-urban-air/4-11-rural-ozone
An no mention of existing ozone levels in beach cities..
“Examine” more accurately defined as holding hearings, posturing, making a few pretty speeches and in the end, doing precisely nothing to prevent the rule from being implemented.
Think Obama is going to sign such a bill?
Inhofe is our best advocate for climate in the Senate. He has been VERY outspoken about his views. Let's not backstab him before he is even in the Chair.
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