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Global Warming.
Last!
Not with regard to the impact of manmade greenhouse gas emissions on climate - that pathetic house of cards is hopefully on the path to falling down sooner rather than later.
My chicken dance is about what EPA is doing while everyone is watching the GHG circus - ignore the man behind the curtain...
In approximately 1 year EPA has proposed or promulgated rules that will significantly impact businesses and communities in the US. More are coming.
In the last year EPA has cut the lead standard to 10% of its previous level, created a new NOX standard that is much more stringent, proposed an SO2 standard that is much more stringent, is reconsidering the existing ozone standard to make it much more stringent, is about to do the same thing as ozone with fine particulate matter, is about to finalize extremely stingent regulations for all non-utility boilers and process heaters (not to mention our cement plants and brick and tile manufacturers), and hammer utility power plants with all of the above plus new regulations, not to mention the EPA GHG endangerment finding and soon to come regulations. This doesn't even include congressional cap and tax.
They have also amped up compliance efforts with a heresay goal of "becoming revenue neutral with power plants being a good source of such funding." Their state level minions have gotten the memo and appear to be happy volunteers - at least in some places.
Cap and trade is a useless, ineffective even for the made up issue of global warming, and will be econominally, socially, and politically devestating to our country.
Nontheless - EPA is cracking away behind the scenes and most of the fit wont hit the shan for a few years. Unfortunately - to few are seeing the upcoming non-GHG chaos.