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Feds taking over permits for Texas plants [EPA going after refineries]
chron.com ^ | May 25, 2010 | PEGGY FIKAC

Posted on 05/25/2010 10:27:17 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Objecting to how Texas regulates air pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it is taking over the issuance of an operating permit for a Corpus Christi refinery and could step in at some 39 other major facilities across the state.

“I think the writing will be on the wall — unless we start seeing better permits that address our objections, we are very likely to begin federalizing others,” EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz said in a telephone interview. “The state is not following federal Clean Air Act requirements.”

Tuesday's unprecedented action affected a Flint Hills Resources refinery in Corpus Christi. The EPA's action means the facility must submit an application with detailed information to the federal agency, which could approve or deny a permit.

The company said it was evaluating a letter from the EPA notifying plant officials of the move.

The list of facilities that could come next the include chemical plants, refineries and other facilities, such as the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Bayport and Houston, the Motiva Enterprises Houston terminal, Rhodia Inc.'s Houston plant, the Chevron Phillips Cedar Bayou facility and Valero's Texas City facility. Other company permits that have drawn scrutiny from the EPA include Exxon Mobil, Dow Chemical Co. and Formosa Plastics.

“We've never objected to 40 permits issued by a state permitting authority, and we've not federalized a permit in a state in this manner before unless we were requested to do so by a state or a particular facility,” Armendariz said. “The action we're taking today, together with the 40 objections, is unprecedented.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cleanairact; communism; energy; envirofascism; epa; epabrownshirts; fascism; refineries; refinery
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Texas needs to tell the feds to get ------.
1 posted on 05/25/2010 10:27:17 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Hugo Chavez would be proud.

Communism is upon us. This is an unabashed and unconstitutional power grab by the feds.

In the not too distant past this would be enough of a cause for either secession or the start of a revolt.

Will Americans take this lying down, or actually come to their senses and put an end to this unconstitutional nonsense?


2 posted on 05/25/2010 10:33:05 PM PDT by Pox
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To: txhurl; Bender2; Allegra

Ping.


3 posted on 05/25/2010 10:35:15 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: steelyourfaith

Ping.


4 posted on 05/25/2010 10:35:32 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: smokingfrog

They are doing the very exact thing they did to auto, bank; etc.

It’s time to stop them.


5 posted on 05/25/2010 10:35:34 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Army Air Corps; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Entrepreneur; Darnright; Nipfan; Defendingliberty; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

6 posted on 05/25/2010 10:38:44 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (America should take a mulligan on the 2008 presidential election.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Ping!


7 posted on 05/25/2010 10:40:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: smokingfrog
This is what I was afraid of...

If the Dems are certain they are gonna lose big in November, they have nothing left to lose. They're gonna let their socialist freak flag fly.

8 posted on 05/25/2010 10:40:53 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: smokingfrog

So the complaint is that the Feds can’t monitor State permitted plants? There’s no proof that the Clean Air Act is being violated? The Feds hate right to work states. They hate that we have jobs and successful business in Texas. It’s about jobs and power. It’s time to sunset the EPA.


9 posted on 05/25/2010 10:44:38 PM PDT by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.) (RIA)
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To: smokingfrog; Jet Jaguar; Lady Jag; Slings and Arrows; maggief; Dog; BP2; Candor7; martin_fierro; ...

Ah, ANOTHER shoe drops.

‘slowly I turn, step...by step....’


10 posted on 05/25/2010 10:45:13 PM PDT by bitt ("WE THE PEOPLE" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE)
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To: Pox
Will Americans take this lying down, or actually come to their senses and put an end to this unconstitutional nonsense?

Sadly Americans voted this Marxist regime into power. Fifty years of government school and media indoctrination plus degradation of traditional cultural norms through "popular culture" has done their destructive work. The socialist boa constrictor is tightening its coils for the kill.

11 posted on 05/25/2010 10:45:39 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: Bernard Marx

Too many power grabs for comfort.....


12 posted on 05/25/2010 10:59:22 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather ("BOOT The Communists Out of Your Govt.-Don't Take Their Goodies!" Yuri Bezmenov- KGB Defector)
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To: smokingfrog

At this point, Texas is doing the feds a favor by not seceding. I believe Texas is the only big state that isn’t a drain on the country.


13 posted on 05/25/2010 11:01:17 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist" - I Hate Mexico)
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To: smokingfrog

Where’s Rick? Is he going to stand by and let this go on?


14 posted on 05/25/2010 11:07:51 PM PDT by crosstimbers
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To: Army Air Corps

Thanks AAC! This will give Texas the opportunity to tell the federales to put it where the sun don’t shine. At the same time give us an opportunity to see what they’re made of. Maybe Perry could call Arizona’s guvnah for some pointers???


15 posted on 05/25/2010 11:10:10 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have just two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!)
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To: crosstimbers
Perry : EPA action on permits a federal power grab
16 posted on 05/25/2010 11:16:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Free Men will always be armed with the Truth. -)
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To: smokingfrog

Al is a third generation Texan, descended from Mexican and Mexican-American grandparents who settled in the border city of El Paso. Born and raised in El Paso, he graduated from Coronado High School in 1988. He has also lived in
Houston, Albuquerque and New Orleans. Al currently lives in Dallas with his wife Cynthia, a public school teacher in Irving ISD, and two sons, Ferris and Simon.

http://www.smu.edu/News/2010/~/media/Images/News/Stories/Al-Armendariz-9nov2009.ashx?w=250&h=178&as=1

Al Armendariz , a Southern Methodist University engineering professor who has sharply criticized federal and state regulators for not cracking down on North Texas polluters, was named on Thursday as the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regional administrator over Texas and four adjacent states.

Armendariz , 39, an El Paso native, has found fault with Texas’ efforts on Dallas-Fort Worth smog, saying that the state’s programs did too little and that the EPA erred in approving them.

http://tinyurl.com/25lfqap

Armendariz will help carry out the Obama administration’s policies on curbing global warming, enforcing federal laws on air and water quality and toxic waste, and pushing for overhauls of Texas’ air pollution rules.

“I think the president and Lisa Jackson have clearly put the EPA on a different track,” Armendariz said Thursday. He cited moves toward controlling greenhouse gas emissions, tightening rules on toxic substances, and renewing efforts to protect communities, especially low-income, minority, and border areas, from pollution.


17 posted on 05/25/2010 11:18:22 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Just an anecdotal note.

I lived in Dallas for 12 years and didn’t notice a smog problem. First I’ve heard of a smog problem there. I should have heard or seen something in the local paper or news about it.


18 posted on 05/25/2010 11:37:21 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: smokingfrog

States need to start thinking about creating a new fed.


19 posted on 05/25/2010 11:40:30 PM PDT by pallis
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To: smokingfrog

Wow! This is bad news. I think it is time for states to begin the process of break all bonds with the federal govt. At minimum this might distract the Feds from their daily power grabs and shine some light on the power grAbs as they happen. At his pace the federal govt will own everything by the time 2012 comes along. The vote em out strategy is a failing strategy. It’s time...


20 posted on 05/26/2010 12:13:04 AM PDT by Pantera
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