Posted on 12/27/2010 9:59:47 AM PST by EBH
On December 23, 2010, the EPA issued a series of rules that put the necessary regulatory framework in place to ensure that industrial facilities can get Clean Air Act (CAA) permits covering their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when needed and ensure that facilities emitting GHGs at levels below those established in the Tailoring Rule do not need to obtain CAA permits.
The agency says these actions will ensure that the largest industrial facilities can get CAA permits that cover GHG emissions beginning in January 2011. These actions are part of EPA’s common sense approach to GHG permitting outlined in the spring 2010 Tailoring Rule.
The first set of actions will give EPA authority to permit GHGs in seven states (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Oregon, and Wyoming) until the state or local agencies can revise their permitting regulations to cover these emissions. EPA is taking additional steps to disapprove part of Texas’ CAA permitting program and the agency will also issue GHG permits to facilities in the state. These actions will ensure that large industrial facilities will be able to receive permits for GHG emissions regardless of where they are located.
In the second set of actions, EPA has issued final rules that will ensure that there are no federal laws in place that require any state to issue a permit for GHG emissions below levels outlined in the tailoring rule.
EPA has worked closely with the states to ensure that the transition to permitting for GHGs is smooth. States are best suited to issue permits to sources of GHG emissions and have experience working with industrial facilities. EPA will continue to work with states to help develop, submit, and obtain approval of the necessary revisions to enable the affected states to issue air permits to GHG-emitting sources.
Beginning in January 2011, industries that are large emitters of GHGs, and that are planning to build new facilities or make major modifications to existing ones, must obtain air permits and implement energy efficiency measures or, where available, cost-effective technology to reduce their GHGs emissions. This includes the nation’s largest GHG emitters, such as power plants, refineries, and cement production facilities. Emissions from small sources, such as farms and restaurants, are not covered by these GHG permitting requirements.
Notice the next two proposals build on these issued rules. 45 and 30 day windows for public comment.
We’re toast man.
Involves more than the seven states in the Press release...
Page 3 of the summary:
• In the second “narrowing rule” signed today, EPA is limiting its previous approval of title
V operating permit programs in 33 states including:
Alabama,
California,
Colorado,
District of Columbia,
Georgia,
Hawaii,
Illinois,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Maryland,
Minnesota,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Nebraska,
Nevada,
New Hampshire,
New York,
Ohio,
Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island,
South Carolina,
South Dakota,
Tennessee,
Utah,
Vermont,
Virgin Islands,
Virginia,
Washington,
West Virginia,
and Wisconsin
The latter will never happen.
And we can’t figure out why manufacturing has fled this country for less-restrictive, less-costly places??
Democrats have been outforcing jobs for 35 years, and this will outforce even more.
Like the CEO of Emerson Electric said last year, Why should he created jobs in AMERICA, when the government isn’t interested in any way in making it profitable for him?
How in the world did we get to the point an ‘agency’ can write rules with the force of law? What law established the EPA in the first place? I know that constitutional amendments have language that says things like “The Congress shall have the power to enforce this...” etc but an ‘agency’ making laws is beyond me. That is a legislative function only. And just today we find that rules are being written into the just passed Obamacare to include the “end of life” counseling that was specifically left out of the original bill. This has to STOP!!
The FCC moves to impose government control of the internet even though congress and the courts have said they cannot.
EPA moves to take control of energy generation. What area of life does this not cover?
Obamacare moves to place life and death decisions in the hands of government.
Information, energy, medical care. That just about covers it all. Add in “hate crime” laws that outlaw certain forms of thought and there isn’t much left.
Next year will be crucial. If the new majority cannot or will not act to put a STOP to all this then it is no exaggeration to say that the Contitution is dead. We will retain the outer trappings of a republic but at its heart it will be a bureacratic tyranny run by an oligarchy of interchangeable ideologues who will rotate within the executive/ligislative/judicial branches of what has become a one-party government. And the party will be that of the “progressives” who will maintain the fiction of R and D opposition but who, in fact, agree on virtually everything.
Congress gave them the “authority” in the legislation to create the “rules.”
how long does this gorebal warming crap have to be dead before it gets buried?
And Freedom has no place left to run too.
EPA should be totally defunded and closed down. Their power comes from “Regulations”, not the law. This is what Washington is doing more and more. The White House is putting out new “Regulations” all the time. This is how they feel they can get around the laws.
The question is, what will be the final tipping point that will leave an enormous number of angry Americans with “nothing else to lose”?
This is exactly what I was saying this past summer...
Cap and Tax was a distraction. Behind closed quiet doors...the agenda moves forward. They have a whole agency to do this...they don’t need congressional squat!!!
Do you Tea Partiers and FReepers see it now? (/frustrated rant)
Global Warming Hoax Deniers are destroying jobs!
Yet another violation of the 1st Amendment’s Establishment Clause...
THE ILLEGAL POWER GRAB BEGINS
There’s already an enormous number of old guys with nothing to lose who are digging up the Garands....Remember, the Second Amendment is the one that assures that the rest of them get followed.
The constitution is stone cold dead. Don't expect anything from the new batch of RINOs: they'll be just like the last batch, and the batch before that.
With enough real republicans/tea party congresspersons, defunding CAN happen. To think otherwise is self-defeating.
I don’t look at the results of the 2010 elections as a one-time event. It’s a start.
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