Posted on 03/23/2011 5:02:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
Environmentalists are backpedaling in their long march toward deindustrialization. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has offered to delay some of its plans to regulate so-called greenhouse gases. Republicans in Congress shouldn’t hesitate to press their advantage.
The agency’s advance faltered last week with the announcement that it was willing to put off for three years new rules requiring biomass-fired boilers to obtain permits to emit carbon dioxide. This provides temporary financial relief to power plants that burn forest and agricultural products, wastewater treatment facilities, landfills and highly subsidized ethanol operations. Other restrictions announced Jan. 2 on coal-fired plants and oil refineries remain in place.
When EPA clean-air regulations become fully operative, they will send shock waves through the American economy. The agency’s claim of long-term benefits totaling $1.3 trillion is inflated, according to a report released March 17 by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The purported financial gain is overstated due to “accounting tricks and gimmicks” and doesn’t consider capital expenditures factories will pay to comply with the rules.
The EPA’s partial capitulation is a reaction to a long-overdue congressional move to re-establish authority over an agency gone rogue. By Easter recess, the House is expected to take up legislation stripping the EPA of its authority to impose emissions regulations on carbon-dioxide-based power facilities...
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Nixon’s fault.
Threaten to kick a bully in the ‘nads and he backs off.
Ping.
I hope they continue to kick until the bully dies.....
.....If they back off, he lives to fight another day.
Or maybe, on something, they will stick to their guns.
Now is the time to kick them in the ‘nads all the more. I would like to see the EPA, as a whole, in the fetal position and holding its crotch in agony.
If the OP(formerly the GOP) is truly intent on returning to the limited government principles in the Constitution they would abolish the EPA since regulating the environment is not an enumerated power granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and therefore is a power reserved to the states or to the people per the 10th Amendment.
Beware when he recovers, though.
Now is the time to seriously defund the EPA and when Obambi is gone eliminate it.
If we won this round, let’s go for the light bulb repeal. I’m hoarding hundreds of these things and I’m going broke!
Restrictions on “biomass fueled” powerplants, which they’ve backed up on, would have been insignificant compared to the restrictions on coal-fired plants, which they’ve kept!
BFD
We had some correctable problems but we did not more government to fix them.
Yeah, what’s up with Dick Nixon lately? Haven’t heard much from him.
They’re not done yet. Everyone should take the time to educate themselves about the ICLEI movement and Agenda 21.
My electricity has gone WAY up over the past 2 years. It reamined the same for years and now, suddenly it’s almost double and yet my usage is the same.
That is the Obama energy plan.
These people DO blink when put on the defensive. They have done so before. They are like nasty little yappy dogs - loud, but weak. Attack early, attack often, and attack on all fronts until they are brought down to size.
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