Posted on 12/29/2013 4:50:45 AM PST by Libloather
Policies surrounding climate change are poised to heat up in 2014 as major aspects of President Obama's climate plan come to fruition.
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce historic final standards aimed at curbing carbon emissions from the nation's power plants in June, but not before lawmakers and industry groups give their two cents on the issue.
Next year, Republicans are expected to continue the crusade against the administration's climate regulations, which they have dubbed the "war on coal."
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who sits on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, blasted the administration and EPA consistently throughout 2013 on the "faulty" science behind the new climate regulations and a "lack of transparency."
Vitter said in his year-end review of Obama's Climate Action Plan that Republicans on EPW will continue to push for oversight hearings on the administration's climate agenda in 2014.
Vitter touts on his website that his specific focus on energy issues includes "shedding light on EPA overregulation that is crushing jobs and preventing a strong economic recovery."
He will get his chance to assail federal officials when the environment committee holds climate change hearings. According to a congressional source, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), EPW chairwoman, wil announce the first hearing, on the president's climate agenda, for Jan. 16.
Also, expect noise from oil groups and environmentalists in 2014 as the State Department's final environmental impact statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is due to be released in the coming weeks.
The debate surrounding Keystone XL can hurt Obama's climate agenda if he goes against his promise to reject the pipeline, and it is found to significantly contribute to carbon emissions.
As the U.S. attempts to lead other nations toward strong climate standards, the expansion of oil explorations in the Arctic will be a prime subject of debate in 2014.
As for the rest of the Senate's agenda in early 2014, EPW plans to tackle chemical safety, oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and oversight of the renewable fuel mandate, among other issues.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's top three priorities include a markup on the nuclear waste bill introduced by a bipartisan group of senators in April, and bringing back the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill, an aide to committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said.
“Today’s sentencing closes the sordid chapter of John Beale’s numerous and egregious fraudulent actions perpetrated against the federal government over a very long period of time,” said EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins.
Warren Buffet has sunk millions into his railroad to carry shale oil that the Keystone pipeline would carry much cheaper. He gives huge contributions to the Democrat campaign fund to assure that Obama won’t approve the pipeline. That’s the way graft is done in all banana republics.
Watch this guy every morning @ 6:5-am...and you’ll know that Al Gore is nothing more than a POS!
http://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers?feature=g-subs-u
Meanwhile, the junk scientists hunkered down in the Antarctic are frozen in by the growing mass of ice.
Regardless of what the rest of the ‘free’ world does in respect to the monumental hoax of Gorebal Warming, those in America that would continue to push this lie (in a proper society, that is) should be imprisoned for fraud!
It’s rather like crying ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.
After five years this media fill-in-the-blank still puts quote marks around “lack of transparency.”
Thanks but I already knew Al Gore is a POS but then again there’s a very long line of liberals, progressives, man-made global warming fanatics folks that are on the POS list.
The “Warmies” are a cult that deserve complete ridicule and public humiliation. This is no longer a debate, it’s a game of verbal whack-a-mole on a great lot of idiot liberals.
Anthropogenic tardcicles.
AL GORE ? I thought Richard Gere was the head of the Gerbil Warming movement .
The junk scientists now trapped in Antarctica were conducting a highly important and confidential study:
Will human expulsions of intestinal gas freeze under sub-zero temperatures?
Part of Obama's "War On America".
>>Meanwhile, the junk scientists hunkered down in the Antarctic are frozen in by the growing mass of ice.
In Antarctic Summer, it must be emphasized.
Other than issuing statements, what action have the Republicans taken?
Um, liberals?
How about rather than forcing yet more bogus environmental regulations on America while ever more American industry moves to China (where none of these regulations apply)
How about for once, we bring back industry to America?
Hmm?
Please don't make the liberals face the consequences of their policies.
In any event, industry is evil. Welfare is good. Working for a living gets in the way of the artistic interests of liberals. Why can't we all be painters, writers and dancers?
In the UK, every household is socked with global warming taxes called green levies. It comes out to about 10% of their annual £1,375 energy bill. It’s a big slush fund that wind turbine and solar investors can dip into for subsidies. It’s estimated that about 30,000 Britons, mostly pensioners, died last year because they couldn’t afford to heat their homes adequately.
Britons will pay out £80 billion for global warming schemes by 2020. More than half that sum is paid out in global warming taxes. Another £20 billion is skimmed off the top by neo-fascist Brussels bureaucrats.
This is exactly what the elitist pigs have planned for the US.
Wow and I bet that obama gave them a HUGE grant!
The EPA, not Congress. Seems they may just as well disband.
It would have been much better had he given them a Hugh Grant.
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