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In EPA rebuke, judge orders quick evaluation on coal jobs
Associated Press ^ | Jan 12, 2017 6:31 PM EST | John Raby

Posted on 01/12/2017 9:08:16 PM PST by Olog-hai

A judge has ordered federal regulators to quickly evaluate how many power plant and coal mining jobs are lost because of air pollution regulations.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey in Wheeling made the ruling after reviewing a response from outgoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy.

McCarthy had responded to the judge’s previous order in a lawsuit brought against her by Murray Energy Corp. that the EPA must start doing an analysis that it hadn’t done in decades. […]

The judge said the EPA is required by law to analyze the economic impact on a continuing basis when enforcing the Clean Air Act and McCarthy’s response “evidences the continued hostility on the part of the EPA to acceptance of the mission established by Congress.”

Bailey ordered the EPA to identify facilities harmed by the regulations during the Obama presidency by July 1. That includes identifying facilities at risk of closure or reductions in employment. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: coal; coalindustry; coalmining; energyindependence; epa; ginamccarthy; johnprestonbailey; necessarilyskyrocket; obama; trump; trumpeffect; waroncoal

1 posted on 01/12/2017 9:08:16 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

BTW. This bitch should be hanged for what her agency did in CO.
Worthless s^&t!


2 posted on 01/12/2017 9:14:28 PM PST by crz
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To: Olog-hai

Everybody seems to be getting the message.


3 posted on 01/12/2017 9:14:30 PM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Olog-hai

Lock. Her. Up.


4 posted on 01/12/2017 9:16:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paladin2

So many of these LIB/leftist asshat fascists need arrested. Keep Git mo open.


5 posted on 01/12/2017 9:19:00 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Olog-hai

The EPA is an anti-American criminal organization.


6 posted on 01/12/2017 9:19:06 PM PST by umgud
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To: Olog-hai

Uh, there’s a new sheriff in town and we demand an economic impact report on that regulation, Mr. freedom-hating bureaucrat!


7 posted on 01/12/2017 9:25:56 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

A very nice review on the case is here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/01/federal-judge-denounces-epa-as-rogue-agency.php
John always does a good job.


8 posted on 01/12/2017 9:36:05 PM PST by Fungi
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To: crz
BTW. This bitch should be hanged for what her agency did in CO.

She should be locked up until she pays reparations for damages.

Yes, I know she can't earn money to pay reparations while in prison. That is the point.

9 posted on 01/12/2017 10:24:56 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

actually I think she can... at like 2.50 an hour...

either way.. she’d be dead before it’s paid back. but I say let her work for it.


10 posted on 01/12/2017 10:29:54 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Olog-hai

wow judges now feel they can uphold the law as written. amazing. trump is not even sworn in.


11 posted on 01/12/2017 10:30:11 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: cableguymn

And let her be in supermax general population.


12 posted on 01/12/2017 10:31:57 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: kvanbrunt2

I think the judge should allow penalties on all involved EPA and other associated government employees.


13 posted on 01/12/2017 10:34:17 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Olog-hai

It begins. Federal agencies will henceforth have to follow the law. Period.

Sad times for the old hippies, slackers and hipsters supposedly working in federal agencies.


14 posted on 01/12/2017 10:37:52 PM PST by JennysCool
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EPA was created by Nixon with an executive order. Trump can rescind that E.O. with his own E.O.

Bye-Bye, EPA and every regulation it currently lords over us all with. One stroke of the pen, all gone.


15 posted on 01/13/2017 3:34:44 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Fungi
"EPA does not get to decide whether compliance with (the law) is good policy, or would lead to too many difficulties for the agency,” Bailey wrote. “It is time for the EPA to recognize that Congress makes the law, and EPA must not only enforce the law, it must obey it".

BOOM MAGA MAGA MAGA BOOM !

16 posted on 01/13/2017 4:32:09 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Olog-hai

Jan 20th 7 days noon, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Jimmy Rose Coal keeps the lights on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDBUfB7npw


17 posted on 01/13/2017 6:44:53 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: kvanbrunt2

wow judges now feel they can uphold the law as written. amazing. trump is not even sworn in.


I’m looking forward to the return of the “rule of law”.


18 posted on 01/13/2017 9:08:53 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: MtnClimber

i believe 85% of teh EPA is al contractors. Should take a few seconds to reduce to the 15%.


19 posted on 01/13/2017 8:22:02 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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