[o_zarkman44]

Lets move to regulate the EPA.

[NormsRevenge]

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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They’ll around to the other 30% soon enough... got to set your priorities, yaknow.. like Obama and the ‘Jobs are #1 priority’ focused like a laser regime..

[knarf]

" ... a step to limit emissions widely very narrowly blamed for global warming."

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Well, now, that's going to jump-start the economy.

/s

[albie]

That should’nt result in too much of a problem for these companies. Just mass firings due to expense. All by design of course.

[businessprofessor]

This problem has a rather simple solution. Do not build or modify facilities. Of course, the EPA will effectively force modifications through other regulations and other forms of coercion. The companies can close facilities and import the fuel or just charge customers if possible.

[xjcsa]

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.

Bullshit. Sulfur dioxide and other real pollutants can exacerbate asthma, but carbon dioxide does no such thing. It feeds plants and that's about it.

[Lucky9teen]

Hey...WASHINGTON....THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING.

And we are NOT buying your “Climate Change”, “Cap & Trade” OR “AMERICAN POWER ACT” BS...so shove it.

You’ve been found out, we are awake and we’ve had enough!!! Pfffft

[corkoman]

Carbon dioxide is not associated with causing asthma.

Well, thats not going to slow them down.

[rhombus]

Might makes right. :-{

[beethovenfan]

Greenhouse gases like, say, water vapor???

[Drill Thrawl]

...carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that they release into the air. Those emissions can exacerbate asthma and other breathing problems.

Since this EPA ruling is based on total Bravo Sierra, could this not be challenged and correspendingly overturned by the courts (Like that matters to 0 re: FCC)

[Man50D]

The EPA is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant the federal government the power to regulate energy. It needs to be abolished.

[Ben Ficklin]

Let's look at those numbers again.

The regulatory threshold under the Clean Air Act is 250 tons per year.

EPA said they would "tailor the reg" so that only those companies emitting(or, as some say, spewing) 25,000 tons would be regulated. At the 25,000 ton threshold, about 12,000 companies would be regulated.

Now, they have "tailored" the reg even further and the threshold is 75,000 tons.

[mapmaker77]

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

[chemicalman]

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.

[soycd]

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.

[SouthTexas]

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

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.

a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming.

[algernonpj]

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.