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EPA finalizes stricter air pollution rules for Wisconsin, other states
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal ^ | 7/7/11 | Lee Bergquist and Thomas Content

Posted on 07/07/2011 6:36:17 PM PDT by Jean S

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized stronger regulations for Wisconsin and 26 other states aimed at curbing air pollution from long-distance sources.

The rules will help those states fight ozone and particle pollution caused by power plants in Illinois, Indiana and other states.

But Wisconsin utilities - whose pollution can contribute to air-quality problems elsewhere - will also need to find ways to reduce their own emissions.

The likely result: Higher electric bills in the coming years.

A group of power companies known as the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity called the action one of the most costly crackdowns on coal ever.

Nationwide, the EPA estimated utilities will spend $1.2 billion next year and $800 million in 2014 to comply with the rule.

(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Indiana; US: Michigan; US: Ohio; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: airpollution; cleanair; cleancoal; coal; economy; electric; energy; epa; high; ozone; prices
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To: FlingWingFlyer; All
"What the hell are they going to plug all those electric cars into?"


21 posted on 07/07/2011 7:12:36 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Jean S

It will take decades — DECADES — to fix what this lame ass, idiot-ridden administration fraks up in 4 years.... =.=


22 posted on 07/07/2011 7:18:18 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Jean S

“Nationwide, the EPA estimated utilities will spend $1.2 billion next year and $800 million in 2014 to comply with the rule.”

Uhhh.....no, they won’t. Not one dime will “they” spend.

We will.


23 posted on 07/07/2011 7:19:19 PM PDT by henkster (Ethanol belongs in a beer can, not a gas tank.)
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To: Gondring

They really dont care what anyone has to say. All it would accomplish is get your name on a watch list as a possible threat. ........


24 posted on 07/07/2011 7:27:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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To: Jean S

I Read the comments at the link.
THOSE PEOPLE IN WISCONSIN ARE INSANE..........


25 posted on 07/07/2011 7:35:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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To: DoughtyOne

Any candidate that would abolish the EPA gets my vote. The EPA is out of control and needs to be stopped.

Q How much polluton has the Obananas, the Clintons and Gore produced in the past year. We need jobs, viable businesses and factories in America,
not onerous regulations by the power hungry EPA.


26 posted on 07/07/2011 7:36:39 PM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: Jean S

Great post & thread. Thanks to all.

DEFUND/(DISMANTLE/DESTROY when necessary), socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.


27 posted on 07/07/2011 7:39:25 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: RC2
The rule was advanced by President Barack Obama's administration to replace the regulations from President George W. Bush's administration that were rejected in the courts.
28 posted on 07/07/2011 7:39:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: Gondring
I’m curious how many FReepers filed a formal comment against this rule during the comment period.

Bwahahahaha.... either you are frighteningly naive, or clueless. Do you honestly mean to suggest to us that the Marxists honestly care about what people say? You mean those who would object wouldn't be summarily dismissed, or executed, for being climate deniers? Pffft...

29 posted on 07/07/2011 7:45:06 PM PDT by Obadiah (If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.)
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To: Obadiah

People keep saying there is going to be a civil war. With guns and everything.

But ma and I don’t believe it one bit. Not one bit.

Those lazy Americans - livin in their big fancy cities. Why they ain’t gonna get up off their lazy butts and fight no war.

Ain’t seen a single shot fired either - but keep hearin about that war - keep hearin about it

Been hearin about it few years

Yet not a single shot fired - nun that I no of

Me thinks the war was lost a long time ago

They just picken up the scrap now


30 posted on 07/07/2011 7:55:34 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: Jean S
Nationwide, the EPA estimated utilities will spend $1.2 billion next year and $800 million in 2014 to comply with the rule.
But in a teleconference with reporters, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson extolled the health benefits of cleaner air, including $120 billion to $280 billion in annual health and welfare benefits beginning in 2014.

Both figures are BS. Coal plant scrubbers can cost hundreds of millions each plant. With something like 900 affected plants across the east, no way I believe the price tag is only a couple billion.

As for the hundreds of billions in health benefits, well...this smells like the millions of jobs that have been "saved" under BO's reign of terror: pure fiction.

31 posted on 07/07/2011 8:00:11 PM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: Jean S

Wisconsin should ignore the EPA and warn any attempt at force closing their plants will be the end of the EPA in this State. Time to get angry and warn Washington they are done. Why the States continue to put up with this rotten communists Washington group is beyond me.


32 posted on 07/07/2011 8:01:42 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: silentknight
The tipping point was when the population became more urban than rural;urbanites seem to be socialists by inclination.

Rural people place a higher value on independence and hard work.

Look at the American versus French revolutions.Which one resulted in less bloodshed and more freedom?

33 posted on 07/07/2011 8:04:35 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Jean S

we’re going to vote this criminal out and trim the EPA and it’s ability to do this crap.....they are unelected and out of control.


34 posted on 07/07/2011 8:06:50 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: Jean S

maybe Madam President can lock the doors and send them home...


35 posted on 07/07/2011 8:08:24 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: Jean S

That’s not all. Some radical environmentalist states with very smoky, coal-fired plants in their major cities are immune to the consequences of their political efforts.

http://www.epa.gov/airtransport/statesmap.html


36 posted on 07/07/2011 8:37:38 PM PDT by familyop (Rome was burned in a day--twice.)
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To: Jean S

BTW, you’ll see in the map key, “States not covered by the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.”


37 posted on 07/07/2011 8:39:24 PM PDT by familyop (Rome was burned in a day--twice.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“All Bachmann would need to do is state that on her first day in office she would dismantle the EPA, and she would win by the biggest landslide in history.”

Add the NEA to that statement and I’d recommend she be made Queen of the United States.

EODGUY


38 posted on 07/07/2011 9:04:44 PM PDT by EODGUY (Hold on to your copies of the Consititution of the United States. It is going to be re-written.)
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To: Jean S

The EPA should be defunded, along with the Dept of Ed, Energy, and others. (preaching to the choir, I know)

I guess it’s too much to hope for that our next president will slash and burn these agencies that are strangling our nation.


39 posted on 07/07/2011 9:04:44 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (PALIN 45 The cure for "meet the new boss, same as the old boss.")
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To: sergeantdave

Every EPA Nazi should be dragged out from behind the desk and into the street and hanged.


I prefer lead poisoning with no hood.


40 posted on 07/07/2011 9:32:21 PM PDT by unkus
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