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EPA's Carbon Regs to be Gradual |
2010-02-25 |
![]() Get in the water, frog. We'll turn up the heat gradually. The E.P.A.'s administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, wrote in a letter to eight coal-state Democrats who have sought a moratorium on regulation that only the biggest sources of greenhouse gases would be subjected to limits before 2013. Smaller ones would not be regulated before 2016, she said. The eight Democratic senators, led by John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, said hugely significant decisions about energy, the economy and the environment should be made by elected representatives, not by federal bureaucrats. The senators, who earlier questioned broad cap-and-trade legislation pushed by the Obama administration, join a number of Republican lawmakers, industry groups and officials from Texas, Alabama and Virginia in challenging the proposed E.P.A. regulations of industrial sources. Senate Republicans are going a step further, seeking to prevent the agency from taking any action to limit greenhouse gases, which are Ms. Jackson warned that if the Republicans thwarted the agency's efforts to address climate change, it would kill the deal negotiated last year to limit carbon pollution from cars and light trucks and would have a chilling effect on the government's scientific studies of global warming. Oh, the horror. Oh, wait; I get it. But wouldn't a chilling effect on the warming be a good thing? |
Posted by:Bobby |
#5 Hopefully the serious regulation won't kick in till after 2012, at which point President Beck will simply abolish the EPA. |
Posted by: DMFD 2010-02-25 17:54 |
#4 Unless they stop emitting Carbon Dioxide themselves (Quit Breathing)They have no buisness Bitching about OTHER "Emissions". |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-02-25 15:11 |
#3 ...any regulation of such gases would be phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on most American businesses Apparently this has no urgency. The action is more along the lines of a governmental mugging in slow motion. Can our government think of any more ways to kill our industries, jobs and make us a non-competitive third world country? |
Posted by: JohnQC 2010-02-25 10:44 |
#2 Germany moved 'gradually' into the rest of Europe during the 30's. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2010-02-25 08:40 |
#1 Most of you know the S key is right next to the A key on the keyboard. Unless I leaked the name of the new carbon regs agency - the Environmental Protection Stormtroopers. |
Posted by: Bobby 2010-02-25 07:24 |