or de-evolve
Posted on 08/02/2015 1:49:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday, in what the president called the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to fight global warming.
.... Obama, in a video posted to Facebook, said the limits were backed up by decades of data and facts showing that without tough action, the world will face more extreme weather and escalating health problems like asthma.
"Climate change is not a problem for another generation," Obama said. "Not anymore."
In his initial proposal, Obama had mandated a 30 percent nationwide cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. The final version, which follows extensive consultations with environmental groups and the energy industry, will require a 32 percent cut instead, according to Obama administration officials, who weren't authorized to comment by name and requested anonymity.
Opponents said they would sue the government immediately. They also planned to ask the courts to put the rule on hold while legal challenges play out.
The final version also gives states an additional two years—until 2022—to comply, officials said, yielding to complaints that the original deadline was too soon. States will also have until 2018 instead of 2017 to submit their plans for how they intend to meet their targets.
But the administration will attempt to incentivize states to take action earlier by offering credits to states that boost renewable sources like wind and solar in 2020 and 2021, officials said.
The Obama administration has a mixed track record in fending off legal challenges to its climate rules...
.......Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has said he would drastically scale down the EPA if elected and shift most of its duties to state regulators.
(Excerpt) Read more at news-sentinel.com ...
"........It probably won't surprise you to learn that none of the prospective GOP presidential candidates are exactly champions of the environment. Probably the least bad is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who at least acknowledges that climate change is real and caused by human activity. Walker just might be the worst. He hasn't said much about the science of global warming. (In the video above, you can watch him tell a little kid that his solution to the problem will center on keeping campsites clean, or something.) But his track record of actively undermining pro-environment programs and policies while supporting the fossil fuel industry is arguably lengthier and more substantive than that of his likely rivals.
"He really has gone after every single piece of environmental protection: Land, air, water—he's left no stone unturned," said Kerry Schumann, executive director of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. "It's hard to imagine anyone has done worse."
Here's a rundown of Walker's inglorious history of anti-environmentalism............."
“Climate change is not a problem for another generation,” Obama said. “Not anymore.”
how about your administation laying the biggest amount of debt in human history for another generation you idiot?.. that’s 1000 times more destructive to the freedoms, liberty and standard of living to the next generations than some smoke stacks... Obama is in the Twilight Zone
Obama and his anti-strong America gang want to dedevelop the United States.
When people in the Twilight Zone want to see something really scary, they tune in to The Obama Administration.
“that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
I have had enough of all the “emissions” coming out of this administration. Time for some cuts
“.... Obama, in a video posted to Facebook, said the limits were backed up by decades of data and facts showing that without tough action, the world will face more extreme weather and escalating health problems like asthma.”
And power plants are to blame, huh? How about curing asthma by shutting them all down completely? /s
If you want your power, you can keep your power.
or de-evolve
Continues to kill America and we allow it
Obama truly hates this country. Hates it. I don’t know if he actually believes this garbage, he is stupid enough he may. I thought nothing we did could stop what is happening, according to the global warming nuts?
“President Barack Obama will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected”
Low hanging fruit for a candidate.
Sexual disorientation and/or obamacare will render the liberal species extinct long before climate change has an opportunity to reduce their numbers.
“The final version, which follows extensive consultations with environmental groups and the energy industry”
I’m sure the only “energy industry” that was consulted
was wind and solar and the regulations it will take to
actually make them profitable. Tell me again why should
we show liberals any respect at all.
Oh I bet you can get an exception for paying some type of multimillion dollar fee in one form or another.
Oddly enough, muslims want to return to the 7the Century. Coincidence?
Who in the energy industry have they had consultations with and what was their motives, largely speaking I believe this to be a lie.
".......Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has said he would drastically scale down the EPA if elected and shift most of its duties to state regulators.
This is absolutely the correct approach because anyone that says the they will end the EPA is really not being honest, that just won't happen in DC. It should happen possibly but it will not.
An independent and objective study needs to be done to lay the myth to rest. We’ve eliminated smog in a large number of cities, have just about killed public smoking, diminished exhauxt fumes from vehicles greatly, and implemented hundreds if not thousands of other regulations to reduce emissions into the atmosphere and they’re still giving us the doomsday scenarios. a good study that shows how they are manipulating the figures would be good stuff.
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