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EPA’s Texas Takeover (the takeovers are endless..wake up, OUR GUYS!)
American ^ | 12-23-10 | Kenneth P. Green

Posted on 12/23/2010 3:00:54 PM PST by STARWISE

As Gabriel Nelson of Greenwire reports, the EPA has taken one step closer to stripping the state of Texas of the right to determine how it wants to control air pollution.

The EPA has given TX final warning that if they do not implement new requirements for the regulation of greenhouse gases (which several states have challenged in court), the EPA will take over the authority to grant operating permits to industry in Texas itself.

Texas Governor Perry is fighting the takeover, of course, but EPA has rarely been faced down in court.

The action, which is nearly unprecedented in the history of the Clean Air Act suggests that rather than backing down on EPA’s regulatory putsch, the Obama Administration plans to double down and run the country as a permitocracy.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.american.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; epa; overlords; statesrights; stopthesocialism; texas
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STOP THE SOCIALISM !

1 posted on 12/23/2010 3:01:02 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

I only have one question: Which is larger: the money Texas sends to D.C. very year, or the money it receives? If the former is larger, than Texas should simply ignore any EPA ruling on permits, along with any judge’s ruling upholding it. If the Feds make any threats, then simply halt all tax payments to Washington indefinitely.


2 posted on 12/23/2010 3:07:52 PM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: STARWISE

“Texas Governor Perry is fighting the takeover, of course, but EPA has rarely been faced down in court”
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maybe the time has come to face them down at the Red River with some M1A1s.


3 posted on 12/23/2010 3:10:17 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: onyx; SE Mom; hoosiermama; penelopesire; maggief; Liz; rodguy911; Allegra; LUV W

.. Ping!


4 posted on 12/23/2010 3:14:01 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Texas, declare CO2 a non pollutant. Take EPA’s wind out of their sail.


5 posted on 12/23/2010 3:15:50 PM PST by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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To: montag813

Sunds like the plot of the book “A State of Disobedience”.


6 posted on 12/23/2010 3:20:30 PM PST by MeganC (January 20, 2013 - President Sarah Palin)
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To: montag813

Exactly. Texas does not need the government of the United States. The government of the United States needs Texas. I have always liked and respected the people of Texas when they say “Don’t mess with Texas”.


7 posted on 12/23/2010 3:21:43 PM PST by RC2
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To: STARWISE

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS!


8 posted on 12/23/2010 3:22:18 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: STARWISE
Charging human beings for breathing is the logical end to this CO2 logic. A tax for being alive.
9 posted on 12/23/2010 3:22:44 PM PST by allmost
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To: STARWISE

Maybe we need to re-visit that “Republic of Texas” thing!


10 posted on 12/23/2010 3:24:51 PM PST by luvie (Deck the harrs with bowrs of horry. Fah, rah, rah, rah, rahhhhh....rah, rah, rah, rahhhhhhh! :))
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To: STARWISE; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; scripter; Darnright; WL-law; ..
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

11 posted on 12/23/2010 3:28:24 PM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: LUV W

Texas should just secede from this corrupt Union.

Washington D.C. needs Texas more than Texas needs
Washington D.C.


12 posted on 12/23/2010 3:31:12 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: montag813

I agree the Governors of the individual states are going to have to stand up and just say “No”. Otherwise nothing will change. The EPA needs to be defunded and closed down by Congress.


13 posted on 12/23/2010 3:33:21 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: STARWISE
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14 posted on 12/23/2010 3:35:11 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

As a Texan, I agree wholeheartedly...


15 posted on 12/23/2010 3:35:42 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Common Sense 101

I will gladly come to Texas if it comes down to “real trouble”. It would be the best thing that happened to America, if they got their rear ends kicked on a regulatory dispute.


16 posted on 12/23/2010 3:45:37 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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To: STARWISE

Wake up our guys?

Wake up people, there is no one in government that want and will stop this.


17 posted on 12/23/2010 3:47:04 PM PST by RINOS ARE RADICALS
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To: LUV W

Think Perry will be a rock and really stand
up to them, or can he be bought off .. with
any possible thing that could seduce him?


18 posted on 12/23/2010 3:55:24 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: montag813

Time for Texas to drop the Union & go it alone——or with whichever other states want to come with them???


19 posted on 12/23/2010 3:57:11 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: STARWISE

Could they at least offer some help with the loads of immigrants crossing the border. IMO, the issue of our sieving borders is worse than just CO2 emissions


20 posted on 12/23/2010 4:04:38 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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