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EPA Planning Scorched Earth Assault on Coal
The Examiner ^ | Conn Carroll

Posted on 11/05/2012 6:00:29 AM PST by varmintman

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; anticoal; bhofascism; coal; corruption; democrats; energy; energyprices; envirofascism; epa; epaoutofcontrol; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; obama; thegreenlie
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Assuming Romney wins, there needs to be some sort of a credible threat out there involving prison time for these Gaea-worshiping lunatics for such activities.
1 posted on 11/05/2012 6:00:33 AM PST by varmintman
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To: varmintman

Watch, after a Romney victory, any talk about reining in the EPA will be met with leftist/MSM screeches of

“stripping environmental protection”
and “promoting pollution”.


2 posted on 11/05/2012 6:03:25 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: varmintman

The EPA needs to be turned into nothing but a display case filled with examples of economic destruction at the Smithsonian.


3 posted on 11/05/2012 6:06:23 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: varmintman

Romney should address this in his Tuesday night speech, saying his Executive Branch will refuse to enforce any of these new regulations. In his inauguration speech he should grant continuing pardons to those that violate these new regulations. He should tell the courts, to paraphrase Jackson, go try and enforce your order, the executive branch including the department of justice will neither enforce or prosecute.


4 posted on 11/05/2012 6:07:12 AM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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To: MrB

I don’t have a lot of faith in the GOP.

My congressman has had a bill sitting dead in the house since February of 2011 that would strip the EPA of regulatory power (that they’ve never officially had). Over 100 co sponsors and they can’t even get it to committee.

H.R.750 - Defending America’s Affordable Energy and Jobs Act

To preempt regulation of, action relating to, or consideration of greenhouse gases under Federal and common law on enactment of a Federal policy to mitigate climate change.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h750/show


5 posted on 11/05/2012 6:08:58 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: varmintman

Just curious if anyone knows what’s the procedure to abolish a federal agency like the EPA. Has it ever been attempted before?

I suspect the President could do a lot - such as refusing to appoint key members, refusing to spend the money Congress allocates, etc., but all that could be reversed by the next administration. I assume it would take action by Congress to completely eliminate an agency permanently.


6 posted on 11/05/2012 6:11:29 AM PST by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: MrB

Liberals aren’t capable of using words that big. They just say we want “dirty air and water”.


7 posted on 11/05/2012 6:13:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer
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To: varmintman
EPA’s 'philosophy of enforcement,' said EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is 'kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.'"
8 posted on 11/05/2012 6:17:11 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: varmintman

Tell all your liberal friends that skyrocketing electric rates are necessarily part of Obama’s plans.


9 posted on 11/05/2012 6:18:21 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: chrisser

“what’s the procedure to abolish a federal agency like the EPA.”

The sweetest thing would be to kill them with budget cuts. Follow that with legislation that requires Congressional approval of all regulations, and then strip them of the power to levy fines.


10 posted on 11/05/2012 6:19:25 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: varmintman

And yet, there will be those in coal states, that work in that industry, that will vote Obama.

Ya just can’t make this stuff up.


11 posted on 11/05/2012 6:20:50 AM PST by Puckster ( "Neanderthals Rule")
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To: chrisser

Just severely defund it .... along with planned parenthood .... as Newt suggested ....


12 posted on 11/05/2012 6:21:11 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will DEFEAT the Obama-Romney Socialist Gay-Marriage Axis of Evil)
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To: varmintman
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever!. They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.

They hijacked the now defunct Democratic Party in the 1970s. They are the EPA mentors.


13 posted on 11/05/2012 6:22:54 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: chrisser

If we had representatives with balls, it would be fairly trivial. Congress can simply refuse to allocate taxpayer dollars for a given organization.

Since this is never discussed much less implemented it’s clear that both parties aren’t serious about these kinds of things.

America is the “Saudi Arabia” of coal, with enough to last for hundreds of years. It’s relatively cheap, and dependable, and not required to send our money to overseas interests. It provides jobs to Americans - good paying jobs - and also to folks who might not have doctorates in navel gazing.

The problem we have faced as a people is the myriad organizations that have sprung up in recent decades both governmental and otherwise, that are not elected and unnacountable, (not that our elected reps are accountable) ; these are tailor made for control-freak wack jobs to implement far reaching policies without public or business review, and this isby design. That is the statist way in modern politics, legislation and legislators are just for show, the courts, lawyers, and NGOs and such actually run the show.


14 posted on 11/05/2012 6:28:44 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: varmintman

what is the procedure for getting regulations overturned


15 posted on 11/05/2012 6:30:37 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: varmintman

And West Virginia is about to re-elect a RAT Senator Manchin. Unbelievable.

WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN WEST VIRGINIA THINKING? RATS pretend to be anything—then they vote Communist. What’s not to understand here?


16 posted on 11/05/2012 6:32:10 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: SC_Pete

DemoKKKrats are WORSE than communists. Anybody who’d ever walked up to Joseph Stalin and suggested the idea of destroying a dam or hydroelectric plant or a major agricultural area like the Central Valley for the sake of lizards, shad, salmon, snail darters or delta smelts would have been taken out behind the barn and shot through the head.


17 posted on 11/05/2012 6:38:00 AM PST by varmintman (November Sixth || Obunga is Through || Bork Obunga || Before He Borks You || Burma Shave)
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To: All
RE: How to make it go away?

"Where did we go wrong, Blanche? "

How do we fix the problem? Tain't happening until "a crisis shall have been reached and passed."

Abe will explain from "the other side."

You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.


18 posted on 11/05/2012 6:38:09 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: varmintman
More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Come Jan. 21 they'll be in the application line at Walmart with the rest of us...


19 posted on 11/05/2012 6:39:38 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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re: “ But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.”

I don’t like “executive orders” generally because presidents use them when they can’t get congress to do what they want, thus often circumventing the Constitution.

But, in the case of a government regulatory bureaucracy that has no Constitutional authority for its existence, I have no problem with the president issuing an order to that particular department to cease and desist in regard to a particular act or actions that department is attempting to implement.

All Romney has to do is to issue an order to stop those regulations from being implemented.


20 posted on 11/05/2012 6:40:33 AM PST by rusty schucklefurd
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