Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/08/2010 5:27:59 PM PDT by Qbert
Washington, D.C.: Senators will soon consider a resolution to pare back an Environmental Protection Agency plan to regulate greenhouse gases – a plan that would raise energy costs.
On June 10, the U.S. Senate will consider a “resolution of disapproval” regarding a 2009 ruling made by the EPA in late 2009 claiming six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. This makes these gases -- carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride -- subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act.
“The EPA’s endangerment finding endangers our economy and our liberty,” said Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network. “The EPA’s effort to regulate greenhouse gases will affect virtually every aspect of our economy and our lives. In expert opinion, this will result in higher energy costs and job losses while having — by their own admission — virtually no effect on cooling global climate.”
Senate Joint Resolution 26, introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), would use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the administrative ruling. This would allow elected representatives to deliberate and pass their own regulations as Congress sees fit.
“I don’t want an unelected bureaucrat imposing rules and regulations on businesses that are essentially a tax on energy and will be passed along to consumers — many of whom are just getting by as it is,” said Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
“Opposition to the cap-and-trade bill that was jammed through the House of Representatives is one of the key positions of the tea parties, and this endangerment finding is cap-and-trade by other means,” noted Deneen Borelli. “Americans are already skeptical enough of lawmakers these days...
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They’re begging to be thrown out of office!
The EPA is unconstitutional since regulating the environment is not an enumerated power specifically listed in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and therefore needs to be abolished.
Wonder what Byrd's position will be. Not only is he also from W. VA, the coal state, but he also is supposed to be so firm in standing for Congressional Power and this EPA thing is a flagrant violation of that.
Under the guise of "Regulation", big-money interests buy their candidate who will funnel money via legislation that enriches them, and the consumer pays. Jobs go off-shore for cheap labor, and the Unions assist by raping profits, which are again funded by the consumer. Additionally, when the Lobbyists' companies or the Unions are in financial trouble, TAXPAYERS get screwed again with "Bailout" after "Bailout", under the mantle of "saving jobs", "saving investors", etc., etc.
The WHOLE system of elections is corrupt, and a common man with ethics and common sense CANNOT be elected, because of overwhelming propoganda by the money-machines of the two major Parties.
Government Agencies did not have a plan to collect Oil leaking from a well, how is the EPA going to save the entire planet ?
Then, We The People/Tea Party Movement have to expose their corruption and get them out. Candidates have to be chosen who cannot be bought off.
That's so we can see how big their homes are, how many yachts they have parked in the drive, and what kind of cars they drive.
Then there's only one thing we can do about it, and that is to "refresh the Tree of Liberty".
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