The EPA: Environmental Terrorists
Don’t believe me? The EPA has now recommended imposing limits on carbon dioxide emissions.
March 24 (Bloomberg) — The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed declaration that greenhouse gases pose a health danger will ratchet up pressure on Congress to pass new limits on emissions from coal-fired power plants and factories.
Approval of the finding would clear the way for the EPA to impose the first limits on carbon dioxide emissions from carmakers such as General Motors Corp., utilities such as American Electric Power Co., along with steelmakers and other manufacturers. Administration officials said yesterday that the proposal had been sent to the White House for review.
Still, President Barack Obama, business and environmental groups all say they prefer that Congress, not the EPA, develop rules for U.S. industrial polluters so that competing interests would have a say. Congress is under pressure to act because the so-called endangerment finding by the EPA would let the agency write rules without input from lawmakers.
“Everyone is saying that tailor-made congressional legislation would be preferable,” said David Bookbinder, chief climate counsel for the environmentalist Sierra Club.
It would take several years to develop regulations through the EPA, and litigation is likely to follow, he said. “Congress can do it all in one shot.”
I feel much better knowing that those nincompoops in Congress can “do it all in one shot”. Do you want Congress passing anything else they haven’t read or understood?
Meanwhile, in another bumbling Obama attempt to fill some seats in his administration, EPA nominee withdraws over grant fraud scrutiny/conflict of interest.
One can only hope that should Congress decide to get serious about curbing carbon emissions, they’ll all stop breathing.
More reading:Regulatory Pandoras Box, and Just say no: tell the EPA Carbon Dioxide Ain’t a Pollutant.
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