Posted on 02/23/2011 2:25:05 PM PST by 92nina
It’s not often that you’ll see the Environmental Protection Agency fighting for American businesses against the encroachment of Big Government. Despite a recent tendency to disregard the economic impact of its most noxious regulations, the unwilling Agency is being dragged, by court order, to release its long awaited boiler-MACT rules.
The Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards in question were first announced in spring of last year. Intended to replace the previous rules, which were vacated by a D.C. circuit court in 2007, these new MACT regulations would impose exacting emissions standards upon thousands of fossil fuel and biomass-fired boilers nationwide. The current proposal has prompted significant outcry from the business community on the grounds that the new standards are expensive and unachievable. The Council of Industrial Boiler Owners released a study last year claiming that “every billion dollars spent on MACT upgrade and compliance costs will put 16,000 jobs at risk and reduce US GDP by as much as $1.2 billion.”
During the rules’ mandatory comment period, the EPA received a wealth of studies and expert opinions explaining the harm boiler-MACT would cause. The Agency intentionally delayed the rulemaking process on multiple occasions to find some way of ameliorating the regulation’s worst effects. Big Green, however, would have none of it. The EPA’s most recent attempt to push back the due date for boiler-MACT was rebuffed by a court order in favor of the Sierra Club; if EPA administrator Lisa Jackson complies, the regulations will be released today, warts and all...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/epa-moves-ahead-boiler-mact-rules-a5885#ixzz1Ep47oRzt
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
What about outlaw stills?
De-fund the EPA.. the sooner the better!
‘The Council of Industrial Boiler Owners released a study last year claiming that “every billion dollars spent on MACT upgrade and compliance costs will put 16,000 jobs at risk and reduce US GDP by as much as $1.2 billion.”’
Doncha know, their ends always justify their means.
How about MAS (Maximum Achievable Savings) by defunding the EPA?
You know, they really picked a “bad time” to make things even worse...I’d say that O’s chances of re-election went from not good to nearly hopeless over the last week. The damage has been done even if Saudi Arabia turns on the spigots. The only hope he has is that the Republicans find a way to fail...a subject in which they are experts.
Barring a total economic collapse, I think 6-7% inflation is baked into the economy right now - and that’s the floor.
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