Posted on 11/03/2008 8:36:20 AM PST by reaganaut1
When environmentalists oppose regulations that yield environmental benefits, something is afoot. So it is with the gathering furor over a possible Bush Administration upgrade of U.S. clean-air regulations.
Senate Democrats Barbara Boxer and Tom Carper wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency last month expressing their "grave concern" about "this dangerous proposal." House Oversight Chairman Henry Waxman is "gravely concerned" too, about the EPA's "reckless disregard of legal constraints on its rulemaking authority." The trio and the green lobby are already shouting about "midnight regulations," the last-minute ritual at the end of every Presidency.
But this rule was first proposed in 2005, and the Administration may -- or may not -- get around to issuing a final verdict this week. The proposal would usefully reform a permitting test called New Source Review, or NSR, which requires power plants to install state-of-the-art pollution controls when they expand their generation capacity, thus increasing smog- or soot-forming emissions.
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Mr. Waxman gives the game away when he claims that the new rule would increase carbon dioxide emission by 74 million tons annually, even though CO2 is not (yet) regulated under clear-air laws. What he really means is that without this rule change the EPA will soon force the decommissioning of a large portion of the U.S. coal-fired power portfolio under New Source Review. Some 71% of the national's coal capacity is between 27- and 57-years-old, and environmentalists want to measure any emissions change as an "increase" so that these plants are shut down.
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I don't understand how such people can even get close to the Presidency in a sane country.
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The Demoncrats always tell you what they are going to do......
Obama,Biden and alike have told us what they plan to do....
It's just so radical and absurd that we tend to ignore them.....
Once in power, they quickly “TAX” to death any industry, group, individual or company they don't like, agree with or hat cations their authority.......
He’s weaken America at home and abroad. He’ll allow Iran’s mad mullahs to get the nukes they want. He’ll turn Iraq over to the terrorists so that they have the country with the second largest oil reserves. He’ll work on taking guns away from Americans; he’ll push infanticide as he’s done in Illinois to make sure that doctors can kill babies. He wants America humbled and brought down.
Anyone, even remotely associated with the coal industry, who votes for Obama will not get my sympathy when he becomes unemployed.
“Anyone, even remotely associated with the coal industry, who votes for Obama will not get my sympathy when he becomes unemployed.”
Haven’t you heard? Obama will create “green” jobs for all of them. /s
The unemployed workers won’t be given green jobs. They’ll be given jobs in his new civilian security force.
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