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Obama to regulate carbon from power plants
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/23/10 | AFP

Posted on 12/23/2010 9:03:08 AM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama's administration said Thursday it will regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, after legislation on climate change died in Congress.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would regulate fossil fuel power plants and petroleum refineries -- which together emit nearly 40 percent of US greenhouse gases -- starting in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: carbon; climatechange; co2; emissions; energy; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenhousegas; jobs; obama; powerplants
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To: VanDeKoik
They just don't get it. Sounds like an impeachable offense to me. He has no authority and congress can only defund the entire EPA at this point. As an impeachment conviction won't be possible.
21 posted on 12/23/2010 9:13:23 AM PST by WHBates
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To: NormsRevenge

With the great love for collective bargaining that Odumbo has, maybe it’s time for coal-fired and oil-fired power producers to go on strike. Nothing like national rolling blackouts in January to send a message. Remember, even if you have gas heat, you still need electricity to start and run the furnace.

Maybe it’s time to eliminate the EPA.


22 posted on 12/23/2010 9:14:30 AM PST by meyer (Obama - the Schwartz is with him.)
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23 posted on 12/23/2010 9:14:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

Or Photoshop.


24 posted on 12/23/2010 9:15:39 AM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Is it arguably self defense if it comes down to a choice of freezing to death or killing them?


25 posted on 12/23/2010 9:16:50 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Lazamataz; Red Badger

I think I’m going to make it a mission to see if I can find out today...


26 posted on 12/23/2010 9:17:02 AM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ve been somewhat skeptical about calls for impeachment, as despite my extreme dislike for this man, I hadn’t seen anything that IMHO was enough to legally justify that. But THIS seems to be to be grounds for impeachment. This is clearly an unconstitutional attempt to bypass the legislature and rule by administrative fiat. That’s impeachable.


27 posted on 12/23/2010 9:17:32 AM PST by Scutter
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To: NormsRevenge

SLASH the funding for the EPA and they won’t be able to control jack****. I’m sick of Emperor Obama and his decrees.


28 posted on 12/23/2010 9:18:01 AM PST by Reagan is King
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To: NormsRevenge

We’ve basically hit the tipping point. The elected government has ceded its power to established agency bureaucracies.

Until Congress takes these agencies down, we will have rule by bureaucratic fiat. Elections now are just window dressing.

We also have the added dimension of total collusion with the White House.

Obama will now govern by executive order and faceless bureaucracy. Whichever is appropriate for the issue at hand.


29 posted on 12/23/2010 9:18:59 AM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: goodnesswins; Red Badger; VanDeKoik
I mean at this point, it's only for fun. Even if you exposed them playing dirty with that picture, and it swept the web as (yet another) fraud by the mainstream State Run Media, it's not like anyone -- ANYONE -- is fooled any more by them.

Don't get me wrong, it's still an important exercise.

30 posted on 12/23/2010 9:20:32 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz

HA...I have friends and family who ARE, I am sure, FOOLED by these fools.


31 posted on 12/23/2010 9:22:02 AM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: NormsRevenge

As the SOB arrives to his mansion on the beach.

http://www.kitv.com/r/26255200/detail.html


32 posted on 12/23/2010 9:24:16 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NormsRevenge

We need to regulate democrats.


33 posted on 12/23/2010 9:26:49 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (If raising taxes on an activity reduces such an activity, let's tax liberalism to death.)
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To: NormsRevenge
starting in 2012.

Nope, they are doing it already, just ask Texas. This story is just a distraction from the real action.

34 posted on 12/23/2010 9:27:37 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Where the blankety blank are our representatives on DRILLING, on putting the word out that Obama has cost us $1.20 more per gallon for gas since he was anointed king...no one talks about that???


35 posted on 12/23/2010 9:28:32 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: NormsRevenge

We don’t need no stinkin’ legislature, or constitution. We’ll just go ahead and do what must be done to establish and perfect our Socialist Autocracy.


36 posted on 12/23/2010 9:35:35 AM PST by Elsiejay (.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I can’t wait till all the Republicans take office and stop this takeover.

Never mind.


37 posted on 12/23/2010 9:37:41 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: NormsRevenge
Wow. First HHS "review" of insurance premium increaes, then net "neutrality," and now this. Obama's megalomania never ceases to amaze me.
38 posted on 12/23/2010 9:41:57 AM PST by curiosity
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To: NormsRevenge

EPA regulations could make it difficult for Americans to stay warm this winter
the Daily Caller via YahooNews ^ | 12/14/2010

Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:10:19 AM by EBH

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2642409/posts

With reports predicting brutally-cold weather to envelop much of the U.S. in the coming weeks, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations could make it harder for Americans to stay warm. According to the National Center for Public Policy, the EPA’s regulatory war on greenhouse gas emissions will drastically increase costs for the majority of Americans who get their heat generated from coal.

Coal happens to be the chief emitter of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, making it the EPA’s public enemy number one. And in absence of a comprehensive energy bill, the agency’s strategy has instead been to regulate and cap its use, which is bad news for the country’s coldest regions. [ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ]

According to a press release from the National Center for Public Policy, the Congressional Research Service this year has already predicted that the average American household will spend $986 just for heat this winter. As far south as Atlanta, Georgia, hundreds have already waited in line for government assistance programs to help pay their energy bills.

“With millions of Americans unemployed and struggling to keep their homes warm, the need for government assistance will only increase,” said Deneen Borelli of the National Center for Public Policy’s Project21. “Heavy demand and higher prices due to the Obama Administration’s assault on the fossil fuels we rely upon are going to stretch charities to their limits and beyond,” she said in a press release.


39 posted on 12/23/2010 9:44:06 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The is A Big Deal, people.

It’s time to really yell about this one. This is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, economy-killing attempts yet, over the long haul.


40 posted on 12/23/2010 9:45:41 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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