Posted on 12/11/2009 2:22:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Obama Administration plans to bypass Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. According to Fox News, a top White House economic official warned Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not wait for Congress to pass legislation on climate change.
The official said that if Congress does not take action, "the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area. And it is not going to be able to regulate in a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way." He explained that legislation would provide compensation for small businesses hit hard by new rules, which EPA action alone could not provide.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson confirmed the threat at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday, saying regulators would frame new rules to complement cap-and-trade legislation pending in Congress. During her speech, she also bragged about the Obama Administration's new environmental policies. The New York Times quoted her saying, "In less than 11 months ... we have done more to promote clean energy and prevent climate change than happened in the last eight years." She highlighted the EPA's recent declaration that six greenhouse gases are a menace to public health and welfare, a move allowing the agency to tighten emissions restrictions on automobiles and industries.
The EPA's sudden increased power gives credence to Jackson's claims that the agency will be able to keep promises made at Copenhagen with or without Congressional approval.
House and Senate Republicans disagree and are planning a GOP delegation to Copenhagen to refute the Obama administration's totalitarian boasts. Fox News reports that Senators Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and John Barrasso of Wyoming will join U.S. Representatives Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Joe Barton of Texas, and Darrell Issa of California at the conference next week. They plan a press conference to remind Copenhagen delegates that the United States cannot make any binding emissions agreements without Congressional approval. They also plan to give voice to skeptical views of global warming during official meetings of the conference.
Already this week the U.S. negotiator at Copenhagen has denied developing nations' calls for climate-change reparations. Delegates from poor countries claim America owes a debt for supposed damage to their ecosystems, public health, and economies from greenhouse gas emissions. The New York Times reports that Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, scoffed at the idea during a press conference this week. "I actually completely reject the notion of a debt or reparations or anything of the like," he said. "For most of the 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, people were blissfully ignorant of the fact that emissions caused a greenhouse effect. It's a relatively recent phenomenon." Stern did, however, express plans to enact measures to cut emissions and to grant foreign aid to developing countries.
HIs mother was a two bit Marxist whore with pretentions of grandeur, just like her son. A rather twisted pride IMHO.
Yeah, then she dumped him.
Thats a fact.She seemed to be a flighty thing,always looking for her next man of color.IMHO she was a sick, sick puppy.
And her dumped kid ends up POTUS; who hates our heritage, our history, and our Constitution.
Pray for America
Depends how soon they lose their fear of the BATFE and the other acronym agencies. These people actually don’t amount to more than a few thousand at best and would be hard-put to deal with multiple trouble spots short of calling in the military.
....semantics and all.
It is quite obvious that this cannot be done without...
...A) Throwing the USA into third world living standards.
-OR-
...B) The EPA collecting continuing fines ad-infinitum.
If (A) happens, it is unsustainable and will eventually end in violence.
If (B) happens, the EPA is not doing their job because the continuance of violations and fines means the EPA is not effectively regulating. By that I mean the behavior they are supposed to eliminate is not being eliminated. In addition, the continuing fines being extracted from the public will shove the country into an continuing economic decline. This should mean punishment of the EPA itself.
What happens to the money the EPA would collect? Does the EPA get to keep the money and become an ever increasing monster? Does it go to the general fund and fund other things? Do they intend to continuously collect the money or do they intend to fine and then shut down the US economy faster?
Either way, the country is screwed.
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