Posted on 11/27/2013 12:29:53 PM PST by Red Badger
Happy holidays from the Obama administration. Federal agencies are currently working on rolling out hundreds of environmental regulations, including major regulations that would limit emissions from power plants and expand the agency’s authority to bodies of water on private property.
On Tuesday, the White House released its regulatory agenda for the fall of 2013. It lists hundreds of pending energy and environmental regulations being crafting by executive branch agencies, including 134 regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency alone.
The EPA is currently crafting 134 major and minor regulations, according to the White House’s regulatory agenda. Seventy-six of the EPA’s pending regulations originate from the agency’s air and radiation office, including carbon-dioxide-emission limits on power plants.
Carbon-dioxide limits are a key part of President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. The EPA is set to set emissions limits that would effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants unless they use carbon capture and sequestration technology. Next year, the agency will move to limit emissions from existing power plants — which could put more older coal plants out of commission.
“The proposed standards, if finalized, will establish achievable limits of carbon pollution per megawatt hour for all future units, moving the nation towards a cleaner and more efficient energy future,” the agency said in its agenda. “In 2014, EPA intends to propose standards of performance for greenhouse gas emissions from existing and modified power plant sources.”
Hundreds of coal plants that have been closed or slated for early retirement due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations, according to coal industry estimates.
“Already, EPA regulations have contributed to the closure of more than 300 coal units in 33 states,” said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
However, the agency isn’t just working on limiting emissions from coal plants. The EPA is also working on a rule that would expand the definition of “waters of the U.S.” under the Clean Water Act to include water on private property.
Republicans have hammered the EPA’s draft water rule as the largest expansion of agency power in history.
“The EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States, including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”
The EPA’s rule is heavily supported by environmentalists who argue that it’s necessary to protecting water quality. Smaller water sources, they argue, eventually affect larger water sources that people use for recreation or their livelihood.
“It’s taking the way the Clean Water Act works back, so that it works the way water works in the real world,” Bob Wendelgass, president and CEO of Clean Water Action, told Fox News.
The EPA says the rule is needed to clear up uncertainty left in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the agency’s regulatory authority over bodies of water.
“The [Clean Water Act] does not distinguish among programs as to what constitutes ‘waters of the United States,’” the agency said. “As a result, these decisions affect the geographic scope of all [Clean Water Act] programs.”
Step in a mud puddle on the way to the mailbox, and you’ll be sent off to the death camps for destroying the wetlands.
We ain't seen nothin' yet.
Global Warming is all that stands between us and the next Ice Age.
1. NO BREATHING!
It releases CO2 poison
2.NO MOVING ABOUT!
Ja, again, causes deadly CO2 to be released
3. DEFINATELY NO DRIVING TO VORK!
Are you insane?!
4. NO VOLCANOES ARE ALLOWED TO ERUPT
By order of the S.S. branch of the EPA
OBEY VISOUT QVESTION!
Was going to post something very similar, but I'm still of the opinion that this imposter isn't going anywhere. Obama was likely riveted when Putin essentially installed a clone of himself in Medvedev, and then just a few years later, he came back to take power.
Mark my words on this day: Barack Insane Obama, the Muslim Marxist Faggot, will not go quietly into that good night. We WILL be hearing from him again.
meanwhile the zetas in Mexico do not let anyone in with guns and tribes do not allow jurisdiction.
Americans need to wake up and reassert their own private jurisidiction and tell the feds to off themselves.
CLinton pardoned FALN... a precedent I am sure democrats will honor to zero when he pardons the gitmis and give them sanctuary in the US.
I think even the low information voters will be fed up with Obama and the Democrats when by the 2014 elections they have had their health insurances cancelled, have sticker shock fron the cost of an Obmacre plan, can’t afford $5 per gallon gasoline and have been sweltering and freezing in their darkened homes because the cost of electricity has skyrocket.
Defund the EPA NOW!
Our air and water quality will NOT suffer as a result.
This is all part of owebama’s plan to grow the economy and create jobs, isn’t it?
This is all part of owebama’s plan to grow the GOVERNMENT and create GOVERNMENT jobs...............
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation — a band of Stalinists who have been given authority over all state recreation land — are trying to sneak into law a ban on firearms. This will ban firearms held by licensed owners from all such state land. The same idea as EPA.
We need a National Regulation Agency
Just to keep track of all the damn regulations
Imposed by a bunch of civil servants on steroids
Spending your money like drunken CONgre$$critetrs.
Where does Lonely Tunes stop and sanity begin these days
In DC, a tidal basin of corruption
The DEms reign supreme and a nation shrivels.
November 2014 and the primaries can’t get here soon enough.
So, if you follow the logic, ALL land belongs to The State, eventually...............
Are you insane?!
No jobs, no problem..............
Therefore it's a WETLAND, and as such must be returned to its pristine condition. No new construction, no new departments, no new regulations. When present buildings are no longer serviceable they should be demolished and replaced with native plants and animal habitat..................
It is way past time to simply not comply. Period.
I thought Congress had oversight of the EPA, not the executive branch.
They do have oversight, but when the Congress is in control of liberals it’s just a dog and pony show...............
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