Posted on 12/23/2010 2:21:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the NY Times: the headline would make it sound like there was some sort of debate going on inside the EPA…
First paragraph: “Threatened with lawsuits from environmental groups, the Obama administration has agreed to issue another round of greenhouse gas limits for both power plants and refineries — this time through a provision of the Clean Air Act that allows U.S. EPA to require pollution controls at both new and existing facilities.”
I’m sure the Obama administration was quaking in its boots under the unrelenting pressure of environmentalists who threatened to rain down lawsuits. At least we know now that the polar bear will not longer be a political pawn in this “power grab”.
You can read the story and get worked up, but, on second thought, why ruin your Christmas.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
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John from CA says:
“The rules for power plants (pdf) would need to be proposed by July 26, 2011, and finalized by May 26, 2012. Proposed standards for refineries (pdf) would need to be released by Dec. 10, 2011, with a final rule due on Nov. 10, 2012.”
The game is likely to change before they get to the finalized versions.
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Curiousgeorge says:
Here’s a Climate Change Litigation Chart from Lexisnexis that shows all the litigation underway over the past few years. It’s about evenly split between the enviro’s and the rational people. Click on the link given to the PDF. It’s very informative. http://www.lexisnexis.com/COMMUNITY/ENVIRONMENTAL-CLIMATECHANGELAW/blogs/environmentallawandclimatechangeblog/archive/2010/09/27/Climate-Change-Litigation-Chart.aspx
Also, here’s some additional info regarding the immediate rule; also from LexisNexis: http://www.lexisnexis.com/Community/environmental-climatechangelaw/blogs/globalclimatechangespecialpamphletseriespoweredbylexisnexis/archive/2009/12/18/EPA_2700_s-Mandatory-Greenhouse-Gas-Reporting-Rule.aspx .
Good idea.
Addresses please of the EPA folks who did this.
Not that we will do anything with them, however.
Yet.
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CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
Folks, I’ve been watching & waiting for this for a while….Pres. Obama did warn Congress that, if they didn’t act, he would. Here’s the US EPA website news release, and this has other links for your review:
Don’t let this ruin your holiday, but please realize that the USEPA comes armed with a Supreme Court ruling, and unwinding this mess will not be easy, as all federal government components are in on this together. DOE, DOD, DHS, DAg, DOT, DInt, NASA, you name it, this is like a quarterback sneak over the goal line….everybody is lined up and pushing in unison!!
When contacting political representatives (Senate, House etc.), use their fax machine. It is by far the best way to get attention from the staff. Address your fax to “Chief of Staff, Rep./Senator XYZ”.
Happy Holiday Wishes to you all, Charles the DrPH
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RHS says:
Remember, most things are treated as a debate in a vacuum until it hits the pocket books of the populace. We may just have to feel this pain point until it hurts, which is stupid as all get out…
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DirkH says:
kramer says:
December 23, 2010 at 12:09 pm
““The existence of an artificially cheap energy system leads to an economy which grows to rapidly relative to what it would be if we had efficient pricing and a full cost ”
~1:50 in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za8SGVBSOMM
”
Interesting. She correctly points out that higher energy prices leads to less demand of labor (but uses different words than me; saying it would lead to less hours worked per year, which is economically the same thing). Calling the energy in America “artificially cheap” is of course a distorted worldview – as if energy naturally has to come with taxes that are twice as high as the value of the energy (in Europe, tax on gasoline is usually about 70% of the price at the pump). So, she has a kind of a working brain, but one where up is down and down is up.
STOP THE ONSLAUGHT!!!!
NO MORE REGULATIONS!
We can barely find any freedom as it is.
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Bruce says:
From yesterday:
“”I think we’re going to have a very amiable and frankly enjoyable time addressing these things,” said a confident Republican Senator James Inhofe”
Ouch! Popcorn. Get some. Could be a three bagger.
(via Tom Nelson)
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FergalR says:
The Irish government just published a Climate Change bill for consideration.
They propose 2050 emissions be 80% below 1990 levels. I almost feel like laughing.
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/12/23/climate-change-response-bill-2010/
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dp says:
Coincidently, a new carbon trading business has just started up in Kahleefoahnya. Or is it a coincidence?
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/17/local/la-me-1217-climate-cap-trade-20101217
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Rocky Horror says:
kramer says:
The EPA is doing its part to put brakes on our economy in order to help the developing economies of the world catch up.
Gotta love it when our government is infested with politicians who have foreign interests over ours…
It’s actually much worse than that.
The EPA is run by Carol Browner, a Commissioner of the Socialist International, which advocates world government as it’s stated goal. And as we see, even without world government, the U.S.A. is already being assessed $100 Billion – per year – as “reparations” for “climate change”. Naturally, this is only the beginning.
Under a world government, where each nation gets an equal vote, the wealth earned by the U.S. will quickly be taxed away to nothing. This is not a wild-eyed rant, but a sober reporting of what is going on right now, and what has led up to the present situation.
I can’t access youtube from work, but a YouTube search for “History of Political Correctness” you show that the EPA is implementing its part of the plan (and so is the FCC with net neutrality, which is simply the first step in eventually restricting of electronic free speech via government agency decree). The basics of the plan were put in place, not by the hippie generation of the sixties, but prior to WWI. The goal, as you might suspect, is totalitarian world government.
Congress has abdicated its legislative responsibilities to unelected appointees and “czars”, who now legislate by decree. This was kept under control in the past, by former Presidents who accepted that straightforward and uniform regulation is necessary. But under President Obama, these czars are being actively used to subvert the rule of law by legislating new laws without a vote of the Legislative branch.
The unscientific demonizing of co2 by a Commissioner of the S.I. was a watershed, with no substance behind it at all. Co2 is emitted naturally, in huge quantities compared to the very small amounts emitted by humans. But the Commissioner decreed co2 to be a pollutant, in order to take control of those emitting it. She is now doing exactly that, as this article shows.
Next year will tell us if the new majority in Congress has what it takes to stand up to this usurping of their Constitutional authority.
Merry Christmas!
See #14.
The United States of America is imploding at a frightening rate in the waning days of 2010...
More blithering idiocy!
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