Posted on 05/22/2015 10:09:46 AM PDT by jazusamo
This summer will be busy for the Obama administration’s energy and environmental regulators, with numerous high-profile rule releases planned.
Between June and August, regulators hope to fill out the Obama administration’s agenda with major rules on greenhouse gases, the oil and natural gas sectors, coal production, and other policy priorities, according to a rule-making schedule released by the White House late Thursday.
The administration’s main climate change rule from the Environmental Protection Agency, which would slash greenhouse gases in the power sector by 30 percent, is due out in August.
That aligns with the timeline EPA officials, including Administrator Gina McCarthy, have been giving since January, saying the final version of the rule will come out in “mid-summer.” States will have about a year after that to submit plans to comply.
A complementary rule limiting emissions from newly built coal- and gas-fired power plants will also be unveiled in August, the White House said.
Accompanying those rules will be a proposed regulation from the EPA explaining how it would impose compliance plans for states that refuse to write their own strategies to cut power plant emissions.
The EPA will take other actions earlier in the summer to cut greenhouse gases.
June will see a proposed rule to further cut carbon from large trucks and buses, a rule that the administration hopes to make final in January 2017 — the last month President Obama is in office.
Also in June, the EPA will decide whether to pursue rules on greenhouse gases from aircraft, fulfilling a court settlement it made last year with environmental groups.
The EPA’s controversial rule to redefine its jurisdiction over waterways is due out in the coming days.
This summer, the EPA will also propose rules setting ethanol blending mandates for 2014 through 2016, and standards for reducing methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sectors.
The Interior Department is hoping this month to wrap up an early look at how it might reform the way it calculates federal royalties for oil and natural gas leases on federally owned land.
In June, the Interior Department will start to gather input on coal royalties on federal land. It will also finalize a rule to protect streams in Appalachia from mountaintop removal coal mining.
The department's piece of the Obama administration’s strategy to reduce methane emissions will come out in July under the White House’s schedule.
That proposal will seek to reduce methane output from oil and natural gas wells on federal land.
The agency is also under a September deadline to finish reviewing a slew of animal species to determine whether they deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Thanks to a 2011 settlement, the Fish and Wildlife Service, which is a part of the Interior Department, must complete reviews by September for species like the Washington ground squirrel and the Florida bonneted bat.
The Energy Department, meanwhile, will move forward this summer on a number of standards for energy efficiency affecting equipment like small electric motors, pool heaters and fluorescent lamp ballasts.
There won’t be anything left of the USA or the Constitution when King Obama is finished with his “fundamental transformation” of the nation.
Too bad republicans are too busy to fight this tyrant.
But they can’t take time off from stuffing their pockets and the pockets of their wealthy pals.
Not unexpected.
Obama has been highly effective setting up to destroy America as his UN handlers ordered him to do ever since Soros installed him as President. Everything he has done was to fulfill this mission.
Next up will be Jeb Bush who will be better, but not much better. Socialist light. His daddy will convey marching orders from the UN to old Jeb.
19 months to go.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Bump!
Where are the state lawmakers on this issue?
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate environmental issues, why are state lawmakers seemingly remaining silent about the federal government’s unconstitutional inteference in state environmental affairs?
And another...
Obama better hurry his 15 minutes is almost up
Anything Obama does by proclamation can be undone by the next president by proclamation.
Actually, this helps the next conservative president a lot, because everything Obama does now that hurts the economy will help the economy when eventually undone by a conservative president who will then get the reward for turning around the economy destroyed by Obama.
How will Obama, Gore and Travolta get around?
I find this quite disturbing. And I guess I'm out of the loop on this. Do these regulations need congressional approval? Does Congress vote on any of them?
Or is impeachment the only option if Congress doesn't like a “regulation”?
Undoubtedly, and unequivocally Ted Cruz is "The MAN with the PLAN."
I too stand with him.
Excellent graphic, and since he spoke those lying words his lies have only compounded.
Let me take a guess at that one. There will be "offsets". Take from me and you, and give to them. Don't worry. It will all balance out in the end.
It is truly shocking what is happening. It used to be that our representatives in Congress passed law that was implemented by agencies through the rulemaking of regulatory codes. Congress declined to endorse the Global Climate Treaty, yet the agencies are taking their own initiative at the direction of the President to implement Administrative policy, rather than law. To the poor sucker at the end of the regulation, it makes no difference. He still is compelled to comply.
Congress needs to pull the reins back like it is doing on the Waters of the United States rulemaking. Things have gotten way out of hand. We need to get representative government back in the driver’s seat and severely constrain the blanket delegation of authority which is being allowed of regulatory agencies.
Very well said, and it has really gotten out of hand with this _resident.
He’s only got a year-and-a-half left; he has to put the pedal to the metal if he’s going to complete his utter destruction of America.
Congress is not blameless in all this.
Passing 1,000+ page laws and vague instructions have led to much of this. Rather than be put on the spot and actually pass a definitive law, they vote on these wordy, multipage documents their staffs and lobbyist have come up with, and don’t even bother to read any of it. Omnibus laws, compiled agreements, spending limit readjustments, etc., are the modern bane of this representative republic.
They need a law that says no law can contain more than 5 pages of text.
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