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| November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation |
| 2012-11-05 |
| President ObamaÂ’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA. More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPAÂ’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion. The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo. Environmentalists at the EPA pulled this trick before in 2000 when the Clinton administration rushed out a finding that Mercury emissions from power plants were a growing public health threat pursuant to the Clean Air Act. That finding did not regulate power plants itself, but it did force the Bush administration to begin a lengthy regulatory process. The Obama EPA has estimated that this regulation alone will cost the U.S. economy $10.9 billion a year. |
| Posted by:Au Auric |
| #11 Defund 'em all. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-11-05 23:22 |
| #10 Burn it down and use the site as a toxic waste dump. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-11-05 17:45 |
| #9 you also need to remove the EPA/DOJ/IS/etc. people with the Obama agenda. Strip them from their political jobs. The ones in civil service? Move them to penguin counting in the Antarctic. Burn it down |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-11-05 14:59 |
| #8 quit being so presumptive about this...you all know that they have to pass the law first before you can see what's in it! |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2012-11-05 12:32 |
| #7 Heard Romney say, they would be going through regulations, looking for those that deter business growth and removing them. Kinda like his teams would do when they were taking over a company.... |
| Posted by: Sherry 2012-11-05 10:43 |
| #6 Because we are more honest and have too much integrity to do what the Donks do? I favor a firestorm of protest when the review period opens up. There is a comment period for new regs, right? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2012-11-05 09:10 |
| #5 Environmentalists at the EPA pulled this trick before in 2000 when the Clinton administration rushed out a finding that Mercury emissions from power plants were a growing public health threat pursuant to the Clean Air Act. Funny that such a thing would come out of the Clinton administration when you consider that China now emits more coal pollution than the US and it was Clinton who granted China most favored nation trading status in spite of their human rights violations. But the thing about pollution is that it doesn't stay in the country of origin. The way the jet stream blows we get a lot of that stuff here. Not only that but the mercury falls into the ocean and poisons the fish. But I guess it's OK to pollute if you do it in the name of socialism so maybe I should just eat tofu and shut up. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2012-11-05 09:06 |
| #4 So retaining control of the House (and the purse), why will the Trunks even fund the organization next year? If you can get away without enforcing immigration laws, why aren't these regulations anymore important? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-11-05 08:34 |
| #3 Maybe if they release enough heating oil on the market for free they'll be able to convince everyone in the northeast that all these regulatioons are a good idea. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-11-05 07:40 |
| #2 In other words they are going to cram it though during the lame-duck session. We need to have a ban on any new regulations or laws during the lame duck session. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-11-05 07:30 |
| #1 Time to rid ourselves of this useless group. Coal miners are going to vote this useless group out. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-11-05 07:06 |