Posted on 07/07/2011 6:36:17 PM PDT by Jean S
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized stronger regulations for Wisconsin and 26 other states aimed at curbing air pollution from long-distance sources.
The rules will help those states fight ozone and particle pollution caused by power plants in Illinois, Indiana and other states.
But Wisconsin utilities - whose pollution can contribute to air-quality problems elsewhere - will also need to find ways to reduce their own emissions.
The likely result: Higher electric bills in the coming years.
A group of power companies known as the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity called the action one of the most costly crackdowns on coal ever.
Nationwide, the EPA estimated utilities will spend $1.2 billion next year and $800 million in 2014 to comply with the rule.
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The last thing I am going to do is take direction from a dumbass.
My “insult” was to your flaming rhetoric.
Call any “kitties” you wish if you can’t handle facts.
“BEIJING!”
Thats the kind of air we need! People have to walk around wearing masks over their mouths and noses, and just think of the lung disease they will suffer from down the road, if they don`t have it already. But what the hey,,,think of the profit industries in China are making! Profit should always come before health. sarc/
One of the huge problems with these cases is that you practically have to devote your life to it. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pages of documents have to be read and understood involving several complex disciplines. Who has time for this?
However, I must say that much, if not most, of EPA’s scientific work is extremely questionable if not fraudulent. It has never impressed me. Generally what is done is a position is taken then studies are undertaken or referenced which support that conclusion.
Nor is any consideration given of what the threat the technology replaces would have done. Protesting coal fired plants is one thing but is there anyone who seriously maintains that using wood for energy would have caused fewer deaths.
I think if EPA safety standards were used for approval of new drugs we would see almost none approved.
I'm copying a quoted comment from that link:
"Our air and water are far cleaner than it was 100 years ago. We no longer heat and cook on coal or wood. Our cars are far cleaner than they were 20 years ago. Our water is cleaner then it's been in over a century. So please tell me why we're forcing increases in energy now when the Obam Depression is showing no signs of improvement. Unless your goal is to move the last of the jobs to China, India, South America and Africa. One small problem. Not everyone can be government workers or on entitlements. Someone has to work and pay taxes."So stop being a liberal buffoon.
You got so much wrong, I don’t know where to start.
The migratory molecule rule has nothing to do with the clean water act. It has everything to do with the fascist EPA persecuting a farmer.
The migratory molecule rule doesn’t exist. It was never passed by congress and nobody, including the Congress or the US Supreme Court, knows what it means.
It was an invention by the fascists in the EPA to destroy a farmer in Michigan.
I set this out as an example to expose that know-nothing leftist arrogantsob as the fraudster that he is. As I mentioned, arrogantsob couldn’t answer a single question I posed.
“Ed Muskie sponsored the “migratory molecule rule?”
Really? Give me a cite. You can’t. Muskie was dead many years before the fascist EPA tried to destroy the farmer with the pretend “molecule rule.”
Congress never passed a “migratory molecule rule.” It was an invention by the Nazi EPA to destroy a farmer.
“Soon after the Clean Water Act was passed, it was determined in federal court that Congress intended it to apply to more than strictly navigable waters.”
That’s bullshit. In SWANCC v US Army, the Supreme court very clearly stated that the CWA is very restrictive.
“There have been dozens of court cases confirming the CWA jurisdiction over these “Migratory Molecule” inputs.”
You’re really fishing off the deep end and don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
There was ONE US Supreme Court decision addressing the stupid and insane “migratory molecule rule.”
“I’m not qualified to answer those questions...”
Ah, the first reasonable thing you’ve said.
“But as stated above, Congress determined, and the SCOTUS agreed, that many inputs are regulated under the CWA.”
What in blazes does that mean?
“The “Migratory Moleule Rule” came in response to SWANCC v. USACOE, so there’s not an issue of “butting up against” it.”
No, the migratory molecule rule was shot down by the Supreme Court based on SWANCC v US ARMY.
Okay, give it your best shot: Explain to everyone here what the “migratory molecule” rule is. I’ll bet a box of doughnuts that you can’t because you needed to be involved in the court case to understand the extreme fascist stupidity of the EPA.
As for flaws in the basis for the rule, it's ALL flawed -- the medical studies, the air/deposition model (whatever that is), the economic analysis, and the MACTs. And I say that with confidence, even without having seen any of it.
As for your Enviro-Com appeal to fear, it means as much to me as EPA's supporting data and analyses. After all, without the ludicrous appeals to fear there would be no EPA.
Why are you yammering on about “farmers” and “migratory molecules” when this article is about the Clean Air Act case that Wisconsin filed?
And why do you get so nasty at those pointing out the fact that this is all to be laid at Congress’ door? Congress can change laws when presented with rational argument and proof. It has amended the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act several times each. It could abolish both.
However, belligerence won’t overcome the massive environmentalist propaganda which has inundated the population.
Do you pride yourself in getting off topic like a liberal?
We were talking about the migratory molecule rule, not DQA.
If you care to investigate, the migratory molecule rule was shot down by the USSC.
As I asked, explain the Migratory molecule rule. Then you ask me what part of the rule doesn’t meet the DQA?
You can’t even state what the migratory molecule rule is. You think Muskie wrote legislation to enable the migratory molecule rule. Cite it.
“Why are you yammering on about “farmers” and “migratory molecules” when this article is about the Clean Air Act case that Wisconsin filed?”
Because my original post brought these subjects up.
But those have nothing to do with this article or case. There are hundreds of horror stories which could be discussed and dozens of abstruse and bizarre rules created and enforced but they are outside this case.
What is really interesting about this is that Wisconsin filed suit probably at the direction of a Democrat governor and secretary of state (the drunk one likely) and it has blown up in their faces with this ruling. RATS are screwing the state even after they were kicked out.
Thanks for the ping back to the thread. A very lively discussion indeed. Yes, I read every post...every word. I’ll repost my original...
Great post & thread. Thanks to all.
DEFUND/(DISMANTLE/DESTROY when necessary), socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
...and add...
With that in mind (after funding for socialist collectives has stopped) legislatures (state and federal) could be part-time with 1/10th pay, NO benefits, NO retirement, NO perks.
God is in control.
Note Apostle Paul’s words in Romans 13:
Now harmonize that with the American Revolution. Were all of those Christian men in rebellion against God?
I have one suggestion, but it'd be below the belt.
My guess is that almost all of us are grateful that we have police to enforce traffic laws. This is one example of the proper role of government. How else could traffic laws be enforced? In the same way, the only way to ensure that some company doesn't dump huge amounts of pollution into the air because it is more profitable than removing the pollution is with laws enforced by some policing agency, such as EPA.
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