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Posted on 02/03/2010 3:01:12 AM PST by reaganaut1
Two congressional members from Missouri said Tuesday that they plan to file legislation blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from developing its own greenhouse gas rules.
U.S. Reps. Ike Skelton, a Democrat, and Jo Ann Emerson, a Republican, sharply criticized federal environmental regulators and warned that because EPA officials are not elected, the agency is not accountable to the farmers, business owners and other Missouri residents who could be hurt.
The EPA had concluded in December that that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases represent a danger to public health, which allows it to consider rules limiting them. That decision stems from a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found greenhouse gases are air pollutants under federal clean-air laws.
But the two Missouri lawmakers say Congress did not intend to give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act.
"The EPA is controlled by bureaucrats who are not elected and are responsible only to the head of the EPA who is from New Jersey," said Skelton, who represents central and western Missouri. "And I doubt that they understand mid-America, the Midwest, agriculture and what our farmers need to continue to do a good job for our country."
The EPA has said scientific evidence demonstrates that greenhouse gases "threaten the public health and welfare of the American people" and that the pollutants — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels — should be reduced. That could be done by Congress or by the EPA.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who was chief of staff for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, has said there were no further excuses for delaying and that agency was "obligated to make reasonable efforts to reduce greenhouse pollutants."
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The buck stops at this bureaucrat.
The EPA is doing what Bamalamadingdong tells them to do.
He thinks he has a dictatorship here and it’s up to Congress to inform him he does not.
In Whitman v. American Trucking the court effectively ruled that administrative agencies can execute executive, legislative and judicial powers.
It is a win/win for pols and bureaucrats. The pols get to slough off the unpopular issues and look like heroes as they combat the evil bureaucrats, while the EPA can wage radical environmental jihad without worrying about those pesky voters.
Missouri ping for your discretion sir.
“...EPA officials are not elected, the agency is not accountable to the farmers, business owners and other Missouri residents who could be hurt.”
Gee, you think so? Congress is the only branch of government that has illegally given away its legislative power and does nothing about it. Unelected bureaucrats writing law is a common feature of dictatorships. No law or rule passed by unaccountable bureaucrats is legal. Period.
Congress can no more give away its legislative power than obuma can grant his war-making power to Bill Ayers.
We are living in a federal bureaucratic dictatorship and have been since the 1930s. Sooner or later we will need to deal with this dictatorship because our gutless congress won’t.
Instead of yapping about who has the power to regulate C02, congress should just cut the money off to the point that the EPA can do no more than keep people from dumping in the rivers and lakes.
“congress should just cut the money off to the point that the EPA can do no more than keep people from dumping in the rivers and lakes.”
Not enough. The EPA is a subversive organization filled with crypto-nazis, and every one of them should be hanged for sedition. As for keeping people from dumping in rivers and lakes, the EPA thugs abuse that, too. The EPA grossly and publicly defied the Supreme Court SWANCC decision. It illegally ignored congress and wrote rules to trump congressional intent concerning navigable waterways.
Read Rapanos v US.
I doubt that it can be done in one fell swoop.
We will be lucky to get any reduction in power at all.
However, I agree with you. It is my belief that the EPA has done more damage to this country's economy than Freddie Mac, Fannie May and all of the real estate scams.
The difference is that it is so under the radar, so insidious that the public and even most industry does not realize what is happening.
RE:”scientific evidence demonstrates that greenhouse gases ‘threaten the public health and welfare of the American people’”
Still using CRU data to justify global scam????
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At least a couple of our Reps are trying to do SOMETHING.
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Low volume ping list
FReepmail me to be on, or off, this list.
At least a couple of our Reps are trying to do SOMETHING.
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Sorry for the double ping.
Darn slow internet.
Thanks for the ping! Skelton is reacting to the Democrat election losses in VA, NJ and MA. He voted for cap and tax and knows he has to rehabilitate himself before November.
And as Inhofe pointed out, everything will be delayed in the courts.
But, in the meantime, the states will have use of the money.
Keep in mind, the upper echelon at the EPA are from state agencies.
It’s a good thing. Emerson is my representative, and she is very responsive to her constituents.
Ike is a democrat that is like a dog with a bone, if he is going to fight the EPA, he is not going to be a wimp.
The list, ping
That IS the ONLY reason he’s doing it.
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