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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
The Supreme Court gave the EPA the ability to autonomously regulate any GHG if the agency determined it to be a "health hazard" in Mass. v EPA.

So the only way to stop this now is to close the EPA.

81 posted on 12/23/2010 12:38:03 PM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Nahaa.

Every one of us Conservatives should march on DC about a month ahead of 15 April, Gun in one hand and our 1040’s in the other.

When congress defunds the, BATFE, EPA,DOE and Education Dept and shows us a certified long form BC of the _resident, “we” will send in the 1040’s till then come and get them.

20-40M Americans in DC armed and willing to community organize and boycott, in this case, the IRS, should get their attention....


82 posted on 12/23/2010 12:40:19 PM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Sequoyah101

Yes but water vapor and clouds make up 90% of the global warming gases, an order of magnitude more than CO2 !

(Which is why H2 based cars are a ridiculous solution to the supposed problem.)

Our only solution is to plastic wrap all land masses, bodies of water, plants & animals to prevent the release of the most deadly of all green house gasses: di-hydrogen monoxide !

Call your congressmen today !!!


83 posted on 12/23/2010 12:48:58 PM PST by fred42 ("Get your facts first, then you can distort 'em as much as you need." - Mark Twain)
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To: edpc

SOME paper plants are co-gen....they generate energy while making paper (my husband works in wood products industry)...they have also got to great lengths over the past 20 years to clean up what comes out of those plants....but, idiot environmentalists wouldn’t know/believe that.


84 posted on 12/23/2010 1:11:06 PM 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: Lazamataz
Nope. And I don't expect we will ever see a tipping point. This is a kinder, gentler fascism.

I agree. I sincerely doubt the new Congress will do anything other than tweak things at the margins. I have no hope there will ever be radical changes that bring us back towards Liberty. The long march to tyranny will continue.

I fear our new Tea Party Representatives will somehow be co opted by the Republican leadership. It is difficult to see how things change in a fundamental way.

85 posted on 12/23/2010 1:11:12 PM PST by sand88
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To: NormsRevenge

Time for new congress to regulate the EPA straight out of business. Starve the beast! Defund defang and defrock the corrupt socialists bastards!!


86 posted on 12/23/2010 1:11:33 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: goodnesswins

More to the point, how old is the image? I seriously doubt that any plant today is emitting in this way. sd


87 posted on 12/23/2010 1:15:21 PM PST by shotdog (I love my country. It's our government I'm afraid of.)
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To: Jim Robinson

We shall see what Boehner proposes but keep in mind how hard it is to destroy a cabinet level agency.. and you have a mushy Senate to boot.

Voters and taxpayers ought not to forget what 4 years of Dem legislation have wrought as they sought to destroy the nation’s economy in the name of Change. Treachery by the majority leaders like the last 2 years hasn’t been seen for a long time would be my guest.

November 2012 and January 2013 can’t get here soon enough.


88 posted on 12/23/2010 1:23:41 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Army Air Corps; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; scripter; Darnright; ...
Thanx Army Air Corps !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

89 posted on 12/23/2010 1:48:07 PM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; tubebender; Carry_Okie; Brad's Gramma; ...

Defund the EPA.


90 posted on 12/23/2010 1:56:21 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: palmer

What is the story on Texas?


91 posted on 12/23/2010 1:59:12 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: TexasRepublic
whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...
92 posted on 12/23/2010 2:02:31 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: TexasRepublic
whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...

The Tennessee Constitution goes a bit farther and declares the people have the right to change it in ANY manner they see fit.

93 posted on 12/23/2010 2:03:40 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: NormsRevenge
We shall see what Boehner proposes but keep in mind how hard it is to destroy a cabinet level agency.. and you have a mushy Senate to boot.

My instincts tell me that Boehner will greatly disappoint us. He has been in D.C. too long. He is too comfortable to push fundamental change. Let's hope the Tea Party members of Congress can make a strong push for Liberty.

94 posted on 12/23/2010 2:04:59 PM PST by sand88
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To: NormsRevenge

What a moron!

Good way to break the economy entirely.
I hope we can clean house in 2012 of this Leftist vermin and all those who have the same brain synapses (I hate to use the word “think” for such activity).


95 posted on 12/23/2010 2:13:30 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: NormsRevenge
Obama is so deliberately backwards, it boggles the mind!!!
96 posted on 12/23/2010 2:14:40 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: NormsRevenge

One more reason why the Obama Administration gotta go in 2012.


97 posted on 12/23/2010 2:16:44 PM PST by popdonnelly (Class warfare is Obama's thing.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Aren't the members of the EPA afraid they'll get the Ceausescu treatment?!?

Seeing that we have an official unemployment of 10% and an actual unemployment of over 20%....doesn't that worry them?

Do they have thoughts of pitchforks and villagers with torches as they try and drift off to their fitful sleep at night?

Just sayin’.....

98 posted on 12/23/2010 2:23:11 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: goodnesswins

Probably Algore’s private coal plant that heats his mansion.


99 posted on 12/23/2010 2:25:31 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

BFL...


100 posted on 12/23/2010 2:29:33 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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