EPA seizes permit power from Texas on greenhouse gas emissions (Defund the EPA)

Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/24/2010 | By DAVE MICHAELS

[tobyhill]

The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it will seize authority from Texas to regulate major emitters of greenhouse gases because Gov. Rick Perry and state regulators refused to implement the rules.

The move caps a long dispute between Texas and the EPA, which have clashed over the Obama administration's push to regulate industrial sources of carbon dioxide emissions.

State officials complain the rules will unfairly punish Texas and its energy-hungry industries when they take effect Jan. 2.

While the EPA makes the rules, states implement most of the requirements of the Clean Air Act.

The most likely practical effect of the EPA awarding permits instead of the state is that companies will find it takes longer to acquire them, said Jeff Holmstead, an EPA assistant administrator from 2001 to 2005.

[screaminsunshine]

Deport the EPA to China. Our economy will boom. I think the days of the EPA are numbered.

[Diogenesis]

The Real Deal?

Patent 6904336 on Carbon Credits is secretly held by Fannie Mae and the DNC.
Don't wait up waiting for the MSM to report it
because David Gregory's wife (MS-DNC) is their lawyer.

[tutstar]

Zero Chavez

[tutstar]

Zero Chavez

[ronnie raygun]

The EPA is tied to the UN DEFUND NOW!

[bert]

a cyberseisure of a permit is unenforcable. There is talk but it can not be enforced.

[Truth29]

The new frontier is here. State nullification? State closure of EPA offices? Use Texas's energy assets to demonstrate that DC needs Texas more than the other way around? There have to be ways to get outside of the box and stop playing by the EPA’s and the enemy Federal government’s rules.

[tobyhill]

The new congress doesn't even really need to “defund” them to make their stance. All they have to do is exclude any money to the EPA in their regular budget or Continuing Resolution.
My choice would be to shut the Government down until all these Communist are out of business.

[FatherofFive]

Who needs state government when you have a federal bureaucrat? /s

Texas created more jobs last year than the other 49 combined. Of course they are the target of big government.

Don't mess with Texas.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[jazzlite]

The EPA is dangerous to our country..They need to be defunded.

[tobyhill]

I would rather them not take any chances with some whacked-out judge and just go ahead and eliminate any money to the EPA which would effectively put them out of business.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Maybe now this will turn Rick Perry from a statist globalist into a states-rights, limited government advocate? Will be interesting to watch how he handles it...because he is a big pusher of the NAFTA Superhighway and North Amer. Union.

Too bad Texas and Texans are getting hosed by the EPA and the Feds. This is a good for time for real state leaders in Texas to step up.

[Jim Noble]

The EPA is tied to the UN DEFUND NOW!/The new congress doesn't even really need to “defund” them to make their stance

You are making this way too complicated.

The EPA was created by, and draws every ounce of authority from, Congress.

It has nothing to do with the UN. Congress doesn't need to make a "stance".

Congress should repeal the Environmental Protection Act of 1971. That's all that's required.

If EPA is defunded, it will still exist, and some court will undoubtedly order its avalanche of regulations to be carried out.

Once the law is repealed, all regulations, grants, contracts, studies, and programs will vanish.

If Congress cannot terminate, entirely, ANY Fourth Branch activity (and perhaps they cannot), then the republic is overthrown and we can act accordingly.

[bert]

The principle is “to ignore”.

Just as Obama ignores his duty to enforce immigration laws, Texas is, and no doubt will continue to ignore the EPA. The fact there is a Federal Judge involved or a decision is just something else to ignore.

It is a policy of secession by degree. Texas chooses not to be a part of the country having an EPA

[tobyhill]

I would love nothing more than repeal of the EPA of ‘71 but as long as Obama is in office and the Rats and RINOs still control the Senate, the best we can do right now is defund them.

[McGavin999]

You are exactly right, the federal government has taught us that you don't have to enforce laws. We can, like the government, ignore those we don't want to follow.

What they did with the illegal alien situation has taught us we don't have to follow their rules either.

[screaminsunshine]

All the Federal Agencies are dangerous. They have become too intrusive. They are expanding like the Blob from the old horror movie. Maybe some CO2 is just what they need and then banishment to the North Pole. It worked on the Blob.

[bert]

——we don’t have to follow their rules either——

The way I put it succinctly is......

New Rules mean new rules