EPA unveils sweeping plan to slash power plant pollution

Reuters ^ | 06/02/2014 | BY VALERIE VOLCOVICI AND JEFF MASON

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The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal is one of the most significant environmental rules proposed by the United States, and could transform the power sector, which relies on coal for nearly 38 percent of electricity.

Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Monday that between 2020 and 2030, the U.S. amount of carbon dioxide the proposal would reduce under the plan would be more than double the carbon pollution from the entire power sector in 2012.

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RE: Also in this 600+ pages, Banning of Candles ,Kerosene lamps and wood burning stoves ?

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If you can’t sleep, you can read the entire regulation
here:

http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-05/documents/20140602proposal-cleanpowerplan.pdf

I can’t do it. I have a life to live.

[Jim Noble]

Can Congress stop this?

At one time, I was very interested in using the political process to slow down, or even to do away with, the EPA.

It's a long story, but basically I think the answer is "no", there's nothing Congress can do unless it repeals or amends 10-12 large environmental "laws" that were written and passed in the period 1955-1972.

The EPA was not created by Congress, and since the President must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed", if the EPA ceased to exist tomorrow, most of its crimes would be ordered by environmentalist wackos in the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Labor, Health & Human Services, and Energy.

Although the EPA is a problem, the existence of "laws" like the Clean Air Act, the Water Quality Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and the Wilderness Act is a much bigger one. These "laws" virtually mandate an ever-expanding scheme of regulation and de-industrialization.

The reason I call them "laws" is that, although they took the form of bills passed by both Houses and signed by Presidents, Congress had no authority to pass them in the first place AND, unlike real laws, they do not tell citizens what they may and may not do, how their behavior is to be evaluated, and what may happen if they are convicted of a violation by a legal and constitutional court.

[gattaca]

ping

[dfwgator]

EPA Soldier: I'm afraid we lost them, sir.

Russ Cargill: Dammit!!!

Russ Cargill: Well then you find 'em, and you get 'em back in the dome! And to make sure nobody else gets out, I want roving death squads around the perimeter 24/7! I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here's how I want them arranged: "tough, soft, tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft."

EPA Soldier: Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power.

Russ Cargill: Oh, of course I have. Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring, no one listens to you!

[Rinnwald]

To paraphrase “The Caine Mutiny”, the Constitution was a system set up by geniuses to be used by idiots. There is no concept or wording in the Constitution that cannot be understood by an average literate man. The fact that we got snookered into thinking lawyers and judges need to parse every phrase to get the true meaning of the Constitution, makes us the idiots.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, for once King FUBO wasn’t lying when he promised us that the price of electricity would “necessarily skyrocket”.

[SeekAndFind]

So, those who voted for him must love sky high electricity prices...

[PapaNew]

The one thing we must hold on to is the Constitution. It is the most inspired political document possibly ever. It is the the rule of law that stands between us and the oppressive, dictatorial rule of man. Otherwise you have the results of a Jacobin revolution worse than with which you started.

[demshateGod]

We can’t hold onto what we’ve lost.

[onyx]

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[Scrambler Bob]

Using that Stroke of the Pen to stop airborne pollution...

First, bo needs to decree that his S**T don’t stink.

Then, the rest of us will have to implement vapor recovery devices in our restrooms.

Makes perfect sense (not scents) to me.

[Ingtar]

My dad, who made his living designing reactors for the US Navy, always talked of that series of GE reactors and how unsafe they were. I am no longer sure if the earthquake caused the incidents, or simply hastened them. With some of the detail I have seen, it sounds as if it was poorly designed (especially for the area), poorly maintained, and poor discipline maintained.

[Truth29]

"To paraphrase “The Caine Mutiny”, the Constitution was a system set up by geniuses to be used by idiots. There is no concept or wording in the Constitution that cannot be understood by an average literate man. The fact that we got snookered into thinking lawyers and judges need to parse every phrase to get the true meaning of the Constitution, makes us the idiots."

As intended by the public education (propaganda) system. A dumb and dependent population is essential to Democrat rule.

[pfony1]

Let’s see now...

Our Federal Governmnet will promote the myth that a trivial increase in CO2 in our atmosphere will cause a significant incease in atmospheric temperatures by establishing a new National Religion involving worship of “the-Earth-as-it-is-today”.

Citizens will be penalized if they do not make substantial “contributions” to support this new religion. “Skeptics” will be punished as heretics. “Indulgences” will be sold to insiders.

Do you suppose we should clue in the “Atheists” about this new ti ebetween church and state??

[PapaNew]

The Constitution is not lost as long as it is alive in people's hearts. Dang man, it's alive in my heart. Why let the idiot Leftists determine what birth rights you may or may not retain?

And as I said, if there's going to be state nullification or an armed rebellion, the rule of law, the Constitution, must be the standard or else we've just replaced the dictatorial rule of those men with more dictatorial rule of other men, like the Jacobins did.

[dadgum]

De-fund the EPA.
Let that POS die and rot.

[buckalfa]

I have empathy for for your positions and feelings regarding the Constitution and the current news surrounding the EPA. Yet, the ability of the EPA to regulate CO2 as a pollutant was ruled as being constitutional by the SCOTUS back in 2007.

[PapaNew]

But the Constitution does not give Obama these sweeping powers that cross over into legislative powers. Congress did not pass his proposed efforts to do this earlier. No he’s doing what he promised (just like Hitler used to do).
His acts are illegitimate and unconstitutional and he should be impeach for this and so many other reckless illegalities committed with clear evidence of premeditated malice.

[mojito]

Yet, the ability of the EPA to regulate CO2 as a pollutant was ruled as being constitutional by the SCOTUS back in 2007.

You mean the fragile whims of Anthony Kennedy found it constitutional, which then became a majority when combined with the votes of the four out and out Marxists on the court to create one of the worst rulings of the last 30 years. Besides, this is an evasion: neither the Clean Air Act nor the 2007 SCOTUS decision granted the EPA the authority to usurp Congress' legislative authority. That's a new twist adopted in the age of 0bama. If the separation of powers is a dead letter, so is the Constitution. If the Constitution is dead, then what we have is a tyranny.

[Texas resident]

This plan will slash jobs and growth and hit us all in many areas. Not just in our electricity costs, but across the board. Refineries, Chemical plants, Paper mills and other large processing facilities use lots of electrical power.
Their bills go way up and those costs are passed on through to the end user customer. So everything we use or need or want will be much more expensive.

Obama’s flexibility on parade.