Posted on 12/07/2009 7:23:32 PM PST by GVnana
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health.
The announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency was clearly timed to build momentum toward an agreement at the international conference on climate change that opened Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark. It signaled the administration was prepared to push ahead for significant controls in the U.S. if Congress doesn't act first on its own.
The price could be steep for both industry and consumers. The EPA finding clears the way for rules that eventually could force the sale of more fuel-efficient vehicles and require plants to install costly new equipment — at a cost of billions or even many tens of billions of dollars — or shift to other forms of energy.
No analysis has been conducted by the EPA on costs of such broad regulations, although the agency put the price tag of its proposed climate-related car rules at $60 billion, with an estimated benefit of $250 billion.
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This just in: OSHA closes all greenhouses.
He no longer needs Congress.
His agencies and Czars will just do it for him.
This mean I gotta get an environmental impact report before my wife gets pregnant?
Chuck Schumer and Henry “Nostrils” Waxjob have just sponsored a bill to OUTLAW ALL FUTURE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.
Severe penalties are imposed for violations.
Chuck Schumer and Henry “Nostrils” Waxjob have just sponsored a bill to OUTLAW ALL FUTURE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.
Severe penalties are imposed for violations.
per car/per year/per person????
with an estimated benefit of $250 billion.
in other words, their budget.
>> was compelling scientific evidence
Like when, during the Industrial Age?
Not “historic President, histronic President”.
This is a game of Obama chicken. Let the EPA do it the advantages of that would be:
1. No cover for Obama.
2. The EPA can be tied up in court and forced to prove the harm of each GHG.
3. No Cap and Trade.
4. No money to foreign governments.
5. A GOP president can reverse it.
6. EPA funding can be held up by a GOP Congress.
This EPA thing is a bluff.
Truly historic. Possibly the most bone-headed statement by any government agency in the history of mankind. That’s pretty historic.
Before 2012 we will see the dissolution of the EPA.
It is the only way that the American economy can survive.
If I were you I’d get her pregnant and have that baby before all the health care/environmental BS kicks in.
Where? I've yet to see any proof. Just saying so does not make it so.
Yep, I TRIPLE-DOG-Dare 'em.
Not only would the current occupant of the Whitehouse not serve out his term, much of the US Congress would also be run out of town.
Thanks about it: A US Administration taking extra-constitutional measures to fundamentally alter the economic order...backed by CROOKED SCIENCE AND LIES.
The only long-term result would be blood in the streets.
This proves to me that the EPA must be abolished as there are no competent scientists within it to come to these conclusions.
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Historic EPA Finding: Greenhouse gasses harm humans
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Hope they get on the nasty effects of oxygen on plant life.
(/SARC)
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