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EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/13/10 | Matthew Daly - ap

Posted on 05/13/2010 1:35:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming.

The EPA said it is completing a rule requiring large polluters to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that they release into the air. Those emissions can exacerbate asthma and other breathing problems.

The rule would require companies to install better technology and improve energy efficiency whenever they build, or significantly modify, a plant.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the rule applies only to large polluters such as power plants, refineries and cement production facilities that collectively are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda21; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenhousegases; regulate; smokestack
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To: pgkdan

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatev. Sometimes these stupid ideas just pop in my head. Can’t be helped.


21 posted on 05/13/2010 2:19:55 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
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To: NormsRevenge

It would be great if the epas’ ac failed on a hot day due to over regulation.


22 posted on 05/13/2010 2:22:33 PM PDT by mapmaker77
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To: Drill Thrawl
"could this not be challenged....and overturned by the courts"

The EPA is responding to the SCOTUS decision(5-4) in 2007 in which SCOTUS determined that CO2 is a pollutant. And since the court decided CO2 is a pollutant, then CO2 must be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

Now some say that since SCOTUS mentioned only tailpipe CO2, then EPA should be regulating only mobile sources of CO2 and not the stationary sources. But that, EPA's legal obligation to SCOTUS, was hashed out by the lawyers in the spring of 2009.

23 posted on 05/13/2010 2:28:19 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: NormsRevenge
I know immigration, legal and illegal, from south of the border is an issue.

Once oil refineries and chemical companies shut down in the US and move operations and equipment to Mexico due to this EPA nonsense, it will be the influx of Americans into Mexico that's going to be the monkey on Mexico's back.

24 posted on 05/13/2010 2:29:12 PM PDT by chemicalman
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To: o_zarkman44; All

After Jan. 2nd of next year, I personally hope Congress defunds the EPA!

If they ain’t got no money, they have no reason to exist.


25 posted on 05/13/2010 2:34:33 PM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots at best!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I suspect that latest Iceland volcano exhausted more CO2 than all off mankind
for the last few years. If these green shooters would shoot it straight for once,
then we could actually make something work...as long as those involved
are willing to actually work.

The leftist-better-than-thou who bilk the taxpayers to fund their ponsi scheme need not apply.


26 posted on 05/13/2010 2:37:24 PM PDT by soycd
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To: chemicalman

Nunh-unh, cowboy... Mexico’s screen doh only swing one way.


27 posted on 05/13/2010 2:38:29 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: Drill Thrawl

I know...it’s hard to remember that logic has no place in our discussions about how this country is governed anymore. Your comment just made too much sense.


28 posted on 05/13/2010 2:45:36 PM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Besides the fact that CO2 is necessary for life to exist on this rock, the “greenhouse” effect is fraud.


29 posted on 05/13/2010 3:00:12 PM PDT by SouthTexas (Congress is out of order!)
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To: o_zarkman44
Why don't we just immediately shut down all industrial and manufacturing activities in the US while we're at it? That's where we're headed; we may as well expedite the process.
30 posted on 05/13/2010 3:21:08 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a neo-McCarthyite ... Obama is a Communist.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel; AdmSmith; Berosus; ...
Thanks NormsRevenge.
a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming.

31 posted on 05/13/2010 3:23:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: NormsRevenge
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the rule applies only to large polluters such as power plants, refineries and cement production facilities that collectively are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

I thought the pols in DC were responsible for all those gas emmissions.
32 posted on 05/13/2010 3:24:05 PM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: NormsRevenge

How do they plan on keeping steam from coming out of the stacks?


33 posted on 05/13/2010 3:31:44 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: xjcsa
Farmers now have to spread sulfur on cropland that once didn't need it. Crops used to get sulfur from...

...air pollution.

34 posted on 05/13/2010 3:34:02 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: o_zarkman44

Congress has oversight on the EPA. They ought to moving to limit their power.


35 posted on 05/13/2010 3:35:52 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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To: NormsRevenge

On the afternoon of January 21st, 2012, this would be remedied in a sane world. The EPA and a number of other agencies would no longer exist, by a stroke of the pen.


36 posted on 05/13/2010 3:38:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
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To: o_zarkman44

America will never be free until the Environmental Protectionn Act is repealed.


37 posted on 05/13/2010 3:41:35 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: NormsRevenge

EPA needs to go DOWN!!! They are being allowed to impliment anything that fails in Congress.


38 posted on 05/13/2010 3:56:27 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jim Noble
true that.


39 posted on 05/13/2010 3:57:08 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
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To: businessprofessor
The companies can close facilities and import the fuel or just charge customers if possible.

Spot on: all costs are ultimately borne by the consumer. They are only hidden in transition. (Kinda like the "balanced" ObamaCare bill)

40 posted on 05/13/2010 4:16:11 PM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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