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NEWS ALERT: Obama set to announce steeper emissions cuts from US power plants
FOXNEWS ^ | 8-2-2015

Posted on 08/02/2015 6:52:24 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

President Barack Obama will impose steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday, in what the president called the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to fight global warming.

The Obama administration is expected to finalize the RULE at a White House event on Monday, a year after proposing UNPRECEDENTED carbon dioxide limits. Obama, in a video posted on Facebook, said the limits were backed up by decades of data and facts showing that without tough action, the world will face more extreme weather and escalating health problems like asthma.

Opponents said they would sue the government immediately. The also planned to ask the courts to put the rule on hold while legal challenges play out.

By clamping down on power plant emissions, Obama is also working to INCREASE HIS LEVERAGE and credibility with other nations whose commitments he's seeking for a GLOBAL CLIMATE TREATY to be finalized later this year in Paris.

More than a dozen states have already made plans to fight the rule, even before it was revealed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has urged some Republican governors to refuse to comply, setting up a confrontation with the EPA, which by law can force its own plan on states that fail to submit implementation plans.

In Congress, lawmakers have sought to use legislation to stop Obama's regulation, and McConnell has tried previously to use an obscure, rarely successful maneuver under the Congressional Review Act to allow Congress to vote it down.

The more serious threat to Obama's RULE will likely come in the courts. The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents energy companies, said 20 to 30 states were poised to join with industry in suing over the rule.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airquality; bhoenergy; bhoepa; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; obama
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Will make energy more expensive?


21 posted on 08/02/2015 7:32:45 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

And an economy on its knees gets kicked in the gut yet again.


22 posted on 08/02/2015 7:33:46 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Hillary - Ethically sleazy and politically stupid)
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To: dila813

Not sure why he didn’t just post the video on GOP.com

Seems the Republicrat party continues to fund the EPA. Why not come out of the closet now...


23 posted on 08/02/2015 7:35:18 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The new hand sign that should be taken up by the conservative congress.

24 posted on 08/02/2015 7:38:34 AM PDT by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I’m starting to think we should just follow through with Obama’s dictates on this and start replacing every coal-fired plant with a mini-nuclear power plant.


25 posted on 08/02/2015 7:39:48 AM PDT by The Duke (Azealia Banks)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Congress is essentially non-existent.


26 posted on 08/02/2015 7:39:51 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
WTF is with this jerk? Every day he throws another rock in the gears of progress for the USA. I hate to use the word "progress", given the political aspect, but I can't think of any other that encompasses what this POS is destroying.
27 posted on 08/02/2015 7:41:47 AM PDT by rhubarbk (Trump will Crush Hillary in 2016)
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To: high info voter

They will keep the UMW happy by continuing to mine our coal to sell to China to burn and pollute ( and ironically Chinese pollution sends up here).

The UMW will essentially become coolies working to send American coal to their masters in China


28 posted on 08/02/2015 7:43:42 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The cost of energy hasn’t skyrocketed enough to please “The Won” and by damn, he’s gonna do his best to make sure the average citizen can only travel via government-provided mass transportation (cattle cars) if it’s the last thing he does.


29 posted on 08/02/2015 7:56:07 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
What Obama refuses to understand is that is takes years to plan and build power plants. None of this can turn on a dime and maybe he knows that. He's trying to sabotage the entire power industry.

If he and his administration had any brains they would have been promoting Thorium Power Plants and utilizing our vast Coal deposits. No thinking at all.

30 posted on 08/02/2015 7:59:33 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

If we ever needed another reason against drug use here it is. Obama is a burn out of the first order. I hope all the do-gooder that felt soooo good voting for this a$$ in the first place are happy.


31 posted on 08/02/2015 8:05:58 AM PDT by JayAr36 (A land without borders is not a country. So where did America go?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

The EPA has the power to destroy our lifestyle (and that is their mission). Congress has the power to reel them in, but no guts to do it.


32 posted on 08/02/2015 8:14:19 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Captain Peter Blood

It’s not about “brains”...it’s about tyranny


33 posted on 08/02/2015 8:34:51 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

This A-hole is going full “hooligan” on the USA.


34 posted on 08/02/2015 9:15:55 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Media: Obama to save nation by only increasing
the cost of energy for average Americans by 20 percent.

In “1984” it was funny, now not so much.


35 posted on 08/02/2015 9:20:20 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Carl Vehse

And the “Gobbler” stands by with nothing to say and no plan to resist anything Obama wants to do.


36 posted on 08/02/2015 9:30:29 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
More than a dozen states have already made plans to fight the rule, even before it was revealed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has urged some Republican governors to refuse to comply, setting up a confrontation with the EPA, which by law can force its own plan on states that fail to submit implementation plans.

Mitch the North End of a Southbound Horse could stop this in congress by defunding or better yet closing the EPA. He could stop a lot of Obama's Pen & Cellphone royal decrees if he would make an effort. Mitch The Incompetent like Johnny The Corrupt Crier leading in the house hasn't taken a stand for any Conservative and important pro-USA issue in decades.

I loathe Pelosi and Reid and all they stand for. But as much as I despise them I'll give them this much credit. They knew how to get their agenda pushed through and have done just that. These two jerks and about half the GOP sitting in both houses are Obama Enabling Tyrants corrupt too their very core. They too hate the USA.

37 posted on 08/02/2015 9:39:06 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: The Duke

one for each house 50 year lifespan


38 posted on 08/02/2015 9:41:30 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: lowbridge

>>>Better living through tyranny<<<

That’s a keeper.


39 posted on 08/02/2015 9:44:14 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses... RIP Roddy Piper.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

He is clinically insane.


40 posted on 08/02/2015 9:48:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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