We don' need no steeking Senate approval!!!
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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Last election I voted for Mark Clayton-Conservative-D over Corker. I think a lot of Freepers did.
I haven't trusted any federal office holder coming out of the Chattanooga area in years including my own districts last few Congresscritters and current one. If I could I'd move my county line a few hundred yards so I'd be in Jimmy Duncan's District and be represented once again.
The third Congressional District is the pits representative wise especially being on the northern end of it. I wish Jimmy Duncan had stepped up and ran either against Alexander or Corker years ago. He could have won.
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