"House Republicans scouring for evidence of overreaching environmental regulations are taking aim at a two-decade-old, taxpayer-funded scientific study by Harvard researchers that linked air pollution to disease and death, even though the landmark study has held up under intense scientific scrutiny since its publication in 1993."
Related: Experts hit snag on global warming
Hey, you gotta have faith even when you are shivering in the cold!
"EPA pushes ahead with new carbon limits" by Michael D. Shear | New York Times, September 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday announced that it was not backing down from a confrontation with the coal industry and would press ahead with enacting the first federal carbon limits on the nation’s power companies.
Better than them than with Syria.
The proposed regulations, announced at the National Press Club by Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are an aggressive move by President Obama to bypass Congress on climate change with executive actions as he promised in his inaugural address this year.
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And here it is!
The regulations are certain to be denounced by House Republicans and the industry as part of what they call the president’s “war on coal.”
And well they should. It's about the Constitution, not coal.
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Opponents of the new EPA rule quickly vowed to take measures to stop it. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate and a senator from coal-dependent Kentucky, promised to use his legislative skills to prevent the measure.
“The president’s decision today is an escalation of the war on coal and what that really means for Kentucky families is an escalation of his war on jobs and the Kentucky economy,” McConnell said. “I will file a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to ensure a vote to stop this devastating EPA rule.”
McCarthy also announced a yearlong schedule for an environmental listening tour — a series of meetings across the country with the public, the industry, and environmental groups as the agency works to establish emissions limits on existing power plants — a far more costly and controversial step.
I hope constituents let her have it with the fraud we no longer believe. It was the final whoreporate pre$$ lie that fell, and maybe that is why I feel such betrayal on this i$$ue.
Obama has told officials he wants to see greenhouse gas limits on existing and new power plants by the time he leaves office in 2017....
Can't come soon enough.
On Friday, McCarthy said: “The overwhelming judgment of science tells us that climate change is real, human activities are fueling that change, and we must take action to avoid the most devastating consequences. We know this is not just about melting glaciers. Climate change — caused by carbon pollution — is one of the most significant public health threats of our time. That’s why EPA has been called to action. And that’s why today’s action is so important for us to talk about.”
Never mind the massive radiation pit that is Fukushima, the oil- and chemical- saturated Gulf of Mexico, or all the other pollution in the air, soil, and water. Let's make a fart-mi$ting lie be our main concern.
Related: 73% Increase In Arctic Ice Since Last Year
So much for melting glaciers. Time to change the tune to climate cooling.
The limits unveiled Friday are a slightly more relaxed standard for coal plants than the administration first proposed in April 2012.
I'm sorry, folks. I no longer have any energy to fart.
Officials said the new plan, which came after the EPA received more than 2.5 million comments from the public and industry, will give coal plant operators more flexibility to meet the limits over several years.
The rules on new power plants will soon face a 60-day public comment period, likely to be followed by intensive industry and environmental lobbying and possible court challenges. Officials said the rules could be finalized by the fall of 2014.
Once the rules are in place, coal power plants would be required to limit their emissions, likely by installing technology called “carbon capture and sequestration,” which scrubs carbon dioxide from their emissions before they reach the plant smokestacks. The technology then pumps it into permanent storage underground.
And then what? It gets fracked out again?
That wouldn't be like government sequester that is allegedly choking the economy, would it?
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