so are they gonna shut down the coal fired electrical plants or not???
Posted on 09/02/2011 11:28:30 AM PDT by ElenaM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration's controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders. Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency — and the unanimous opinion of its independent panel of scientific advisers — and directed administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed regulation to reduce concentrations of ground-level ozone, smog's main ingredient. The decision rests in part on reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy.
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When one person can determine the fate of 300 million that’s not a republic, but a dictatorship.
Congress needs to return its lawmaking powers to itself and strip them from the Executive branch.
Yeah, Dick Obama, MOST of the things you are doing are too expensive at ANY time.
so are they gonna shut down the coal fired electrical plants or not???
I don’t know, I haven’t seen anything on that aspect yet. Hopefully those plants will stay online but anything can happen at this point.
prolly wait till the dead of winter to shut them down so the north east can freeze in the dark...
the DUmmies are in complete meltdown...
and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
“It’s amazing how pissed off the liberal Rats are...the comments in HP are brutal.”
Thank you for making my day. The only good rat - in a civilized world - is a pissed-off rat.
Goota love gov’t bean counters
It’s going to cost between 19 billion dollars and 5 times that much.
maybe more, we just don’t know
“President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration’s controversial plans”
The bastard son of a Honoluhu street urchin already has promised to bury the coal industry. That tells me ms affirmative action has something even more sinister up his prissy little sleeve.
Expect more right turns from the punk POTUS as he prepares for November 2012. He is taking a play from the Clinton playbook Wwatch what happens after the election
***Obama reverses EPA ozone regs, ****
And the DUrs are goubg ballistic!
Where’s the media outrage?
Children and minorities most affected !!
Don’t believe it.
The DU’ers don’t even know what he is delaying. They just scream “love canal” and crap like that.
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