Posted on 10/06/2011 5:41:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
EPA: Regulations would require 230,000 new employees, $21 billion cost
The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be “absurd” in application and “impossible to administer” by its self-imposed 2016 deadline. But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats — at a cost of $21 billion — to attempt to implement the rules.The EPA aims to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, even though the law doesn’t give the EPA explicit power to do so. The agency’s authority to move forward is being challenged in court by petitioners who argue that such a decision should be left for Congress to make.
The proposed regulations would set greenhouse gas emission thresholds above which businesses must file for an EPA permit and complete extra paperwork in order to continue operating. If the EPA wins its court battle and fully rolls out the greenhouse gas regulations, the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously — from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million.
These new regulatory efforts are not likely to succeed, the EPA admits, but it has decided to move forward regardless. “While EPA acknowledges that come 2016, the administrative burdens may still be so great that compliance … may still be absurd or impossible to administer at that time, that does not mean that the Agency is not moving toward the statutory thresholds,” the EPA wrote in a September 16 court briefing.
The EPA is asking taxpayers to fund up to 230,000 new government workers to process all the extra paperwork, at an estimated cost of $21 billion. That cost does not include the economic impact of the regulations themselves.
“Hiring the 230,000 full-time employees necessary to produce the 1.4 billion work hours required to address the actual increase in permitting functions would result in an increase in Title V administration costs of $21 billion per year,” the EPA wrote in the court brief.
The petitioner suing the EPA is the Coalition for Responsible Regulation, a trade group reportedly linked to domestic chemical companies.
The Federal Empire just needs to cut spending and wipe out most regulations. Push it back down to the states.
If they would stop obstructing Energy (Nuclear and Oil) then tons of jobs would be created both directly and indirectly.
Barry says he has introduced the best ideas he has heard.
He is full of dung.
The best Ideas are these
1. Drill.
2. Stop Obamacare
3. Freeze all regulations and rescid half of them already in effect.
4. Do the above and GTF out of the way, America will know what to do.
He isn’t going to do that at all. Mitch McConnell just said to Greta he wants Western European Socialism and he isn’t going to get it.
Obama to media: Stop pretending the GOP has a real jobs plan, and start pretending I have one!
Somebody please tell this moron that the govt does not create jobs. Private business does. We don’t need a jobs plan. Is this nightmare ever going to end? I can’t take 13 more months of this cretin on TV every 15 minutes. He thinks he’s Hugo Chavez.
His inexperience has been showing since he took office, but we already knew this while he was still running for the presidency. It is above his pay grade not by choice but by his arrogance
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