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The EPA’s Blueprint for Disaster
National Review Online ^ | July 11, 2008 | Phil Kerpen

Posted on 07/11/2008 7:28:12 AM PDT by CedarDave

Opponents of massive new energy taxes and regulations breathed a small sigh of relief last month when the Lieberman-Warner climate-tax bill went down in flames on the Senate floor. Even 10 Democrats broke from the party line and voted against it, writing that they would have opposed the bill on final passage. Unfortunately, power-mad bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency remain undaunted.

The EPA is expected today to release a document that blueprints a dizzying array of greenhouse-gas regulatory programs under dozens of different provisions of the 1970 Clean Air Act. The document, called an “Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,” will formally begin the process of implementing restrictions more draconian than those in the Lieberman-Warner bill — all without a single vote of Congress.

... At more than 200 pages, along with an appendix of more than 800 pages, it is a radical plan for reordering the entire U.S. economy.

Not only would motor vehicles be regulated in the EPA’s new rules — and to a much greater degree than they are in new regulations coming from the Department of Transportation — so would light-duty trucks, heavy-duty trucks, buses, motorcycles, planes, trains, ships, boats, tractors, mining equipment, RVs, lawn mowers, fork lifts, and just about every other piece of equipment that’s got a motor in it. The new regulations in many cases could require complete equipment redesigns and operational changes.

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The worst excess here is the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program. This would require permitting for businesses and structures that emit as little as 100 tons of greenhouse gases per year. ... Any building over 100,000 square feet would be pulled in, as would numerous smaller buildings that produce carbon dioxide. Small businesses, restaurants, schools, and hospitals that have commercial kitchens with gas burners would all be affected.

(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: carbondioxide; climatechange; climatesecurityact; congress; environment; epa; globalwarming; greenhousegases; ussenate
The article concludes by stating the obvious: The EPA is out of control and Congress must step in to prevent the radical reordering of our economy by passing legislation to prevent the EPA from applying its version of how the U.S. economy should work.
1 posted on 07/11/2008 7:28:13 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; holdonnow

PING!


2 posted on 07/11/2008 7:29:37 AM PDT by CedarDave ("Not Evil, Just Wrong - The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria" http://noteviljustwrong.com/)
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To: CedarDave

They’ll get my weed-eater when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.........


3 posted on 07/11/2008 7:33:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: CedarDave

Is EPA even legal under the constitution?


4 posted on 07/11/2008 7:33:12 AM PDT by devistate one four (H I V Homophobia Is Vindicated)
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To: devistate one four

Created during the Nixon Administration.


5 posted on 07/11/2008 7:34:11 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: CedarDave

The EPA is out of control and Congress must step in to prevent the radical reordering of our economy by passing legislation to prevent the EPA from applying its version of how the U.S. economy should work.
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I would hope so — since when did the EPA start establishing the national agenda and legistlation anyway?? Washington remains OUT OF CONTROL and it had better do something before their power-centric madmen destroy our economy, what shred of any energy policy we might have, and everything else in this country.


6 posted on 07/11/2008 7:36:55 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: CedarDave
Forget global warming and potential impact of greenhouse gas emissions. If any of these folks are partially right, life on planet Earth is in for a whole world of hurt!

Global warming has ended - a new climate era of pronounced cold weather has begun.

Livingston and Penn paper: “Sunspots may vanish by 2015"

New Research Indicates Climate Similar to the 1800s Within the Next 15 Years: First Stage of Global Cooling Will Begin During 2008-2009

7 posted on 07/11/2008 7:37:10 AM PDT by CedarDave ("Not Evil, Just Wrong - The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria" http://noteviljustwrong.com/)
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To: CedarDave
by passing legislation to prevent abolish the EPA

There, fixed. The EPA and most of the other alphabet soup federal agencies that are unconstitutional as far as I can see.

8 posted on 07/11/2008 7:40:35 AM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
And FDR's liberal Supreme Court ruled it was legal for Congress to delegate their law making powers to the Alphabet Agencies as "rule making".

Nixon was the liberals best friend. I know why they hate him, but he did just as much for their causes as LBJ.

9 posted on 07/11/2008 7:40:35 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: CedarDave

Two things are sure keys to becoming and staying rich...
Enviornmental wackoism and racial strife.Both are big business and as long as there is greed and sheeple,they will NEVER go away.


10 posted on 07/11/2008 7:41:43 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Liberals (and RINOS) act as if stupidity were a virtue.)
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To: CedarDave

Close the EPA.
Repeal the Endangered Species Act
Drill any place there is oil.
Build refineries.
Refine only one formulation of gasoline for each grade nation wide.
Build coal fired electric power plants.
Build nuclear powered electric power plants.

Drill Here Drill Now!


11 posted on 07/11/2008 7:46:03 AM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: CedarDave

The new classification of CO2 as a “pollutant” MUST be overturned. It’s nonsensical, and absolutely counter to a reasonable economy.

In fact, environmentalism as it currently exists in the US must be widely recognized as a regressive force, intent mainly on restricting human activity, prosperity, and success.

There must be a new “reasonable environmentalism” that recognizes humanity’s right to thrive and prosper alongside all the other living creatures, and occasionally even displace or destroy them. Eating them is OK too. ;-)


12 posted on 07/11/2008 7:49:30 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: CedarDave
The EPA is an agency that abuses power, it is a job creating bureaucracy hell bent on ruining this country.
13 posted on 07/11/2008 7:57:54 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: devistate one four
Is EPA even legal under the constitution?

EPA is part of the fourth branch of government, the largest and most powerful branch, by far.

And no, I don't believe that Congress can delegate "all legislative powers herein granted" to unelected officials, but Congress loves it that way, since they can posture all they want and remain unaccountable.

I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it to change.

14 posted on 07/11/2008 8:01:28 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cut the birth certificate crap! It's the communism, stupid!)
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To: devistate one four

Nope.


15 posted on 07/11/2008 8:49:29 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: PreciousLiberty
There must be a new “reasonable environmentalism” that recognizes humanity’s right to thrive and prosper alongside all the other living creatures, and occasionally even displace or destroy them. Eating them is OK too.

Good post. Reasonable means two things to me. First, environmental regulations should be subject to a cost/benefit analysis. Environmental regulations ignore costs and inflate benefits especially at the point of diminishing returns. Second, third party lawsuits should be banned. Environmental groups should not be allowed to sue on behalf of third parties (animals). Government regulations enacted by Congress and enforced by government agencies should be the final word unless you are directly harmed. Third party lawsuits have made environmental groups a fifth branch of government.

16 posted on 07/11/2008 9:04:06 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: CedarDave; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
Thanx !

 



Beam me to Planet Gore !

17 posted on 07/11/2008 9:50:17 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: CedarDave

We are heading toward a second civil war. Instead of states rights, this one will be over individual rights. It will be over the environment.


18 posted on 07/11/2008 7:31:07 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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