Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/11/2009 2:22:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Obama Administration plans to bypass Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. According to Fox News, a top White House economic official warned Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not wait for Congress to pass legislation on climate change.
The official said that if Congress does not take action, "the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area. And it is not going to be able to regulate in a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way." He explained that legislation would provide compensation for small businesses hit hard by new rules, which EPA action alone could not provide.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson confirmed the threat at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday, saying regulators would frame new rules to complement cap-and-trade legislation pending in Congress. During her speech, she also bragged about the Obama Administration's new environmental policies. The New York Times quoted her saying, "In less than 11 months ... we have done more to promote clean energy and prevent climate change than happened in the last eight years." She highlighted the EPA's recent declaration that six greenhouse gases are a menace to public health and welfare, a move allowing the agency to tighten emissions restrictions on automobiles and industries.
The EPA's sudden increased power gives credence to Jackson's claims that the agency will be able to keep promises made at Copenhagen with or without Congressional approval.
House and Senate Republicans disagree and are planning a GOP delegation to Copenhagen to refute the Obama administration's totalitarian boasts. Fox News reports that Senators Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and John Barrasso of Wyoming will join U.S. Representatives Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Joe Barton of Texas, and Darrell Issa of California at the conference next week. They plan a press conference to remind Copenhagen delegates that the United States cannot make any binding emissions agreements without Congressional approval. They also plan to give voice to skeptical views of global warming during official meetings of the conference.
Already this week the U.S. negotiator at Copenhagen has denied developing nations' calls for climate-change reparations. Delegates from poor countries claim America owes a debt for supposed damage to their ecosystems, public health, and economies from greenhouse gas emissions. The New York Times reports that Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, scoffed at the idea during a press conference this week. "I actually completely reject the notion of a debt or reparations or anything of the like," he said. "For most of the 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, people were blissfully ignorant of the fact that emissions caused a greenhouse effect. It's a relatively recent phenomenon." Stern did, however, express plans to enact measures to cut emissions and to grant foreign aid to developing countries.
No, its a marxist occupation
And our Armed Forces are fighting for what now?
What we have to do is tie up this bastard and his administration in litigation over ANYTHING he proposes until the Rats loose control of Congress and that bastard is impeached or voted out of office.
1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
There is no greenhouse warming. Period.
What country do I live in? We have a special envoy for climate change? This administration must be stopped.
Who is this official? I want his/her name.
When does the revolution begin?
The WH can do whatever it wants, Holder can do whatever he wants.
There is no balance of power any more.
We are being occupied by the enemy.
Funny how 300 MILLION armed Americans can be held hostage by a handful of people in DC. We deserve what we get.
The majority of Americans were sound asleep when this traitor and his gang of thugs were elected last November, while some of us were screaming as loud as we could to look at this radical pretender......... and too many are still slow in waking up.
I wonder how disastrous things will get before Americans take this country back from the invaders? I wonder how long we can survive this onslaught?
I don’t think they’ll wait that long. I think it’s coming in 2010. Cloward-Piven.
his mother would be so proud
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