http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/epa/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:42:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417876/posts ...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will impose a stricter nationwide limit on ozone, or smog, next month, requiring further pollution cuts from vehicles and industries just as Houston complies for the first time with the current standard, set in 1997. Thanks to cleanup efforts, favorable weather conditions and a slumping economy that reduced emissions-producing business and transportation, Houston will achieve the standard of 84 parts per billion, or 84 molecules of ozone for every billion molecules of air, by the thinnest of margins this year. But the new limit, lowered on the basis of more recent medical evidence, will be... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417876/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:42:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415060/posts WASHINGTON — The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association filed a petition Dec. 23 in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent greenhouse gas (GHG) “endangerment finding” rule. The endangerment finding does not in and of itself regulate greenhouse gases, but it is a step in the process for GHG regulation under the Clean Air Act. The rule provides the foundation for EPA for the first time to regulate GHGs from small and large sources throughout the economy, including farms, hospitals, office buildings and schools. Not science-based The cattlemen’s association claims EPA’s finding is not based on... Farm and Dairy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415060/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:21:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414414/posts December 24, 2009 Santa’s Village, North Pole - Handing victory to a coalition of environmental groups, a judge in the Northern District today issued an emergency injunction against the traditional Christmas Eve flight of Santa’s reindeer herd. The temporary restraining order cites a “substantial likelihood of irreparable atmospheric harm” arising from “high altitude carbon emissions” and bans further reindeer flights until full environmental impact studies can be completed, a process that could take up to five years. Green leaders praised the ruling off the record, but few were willing to make public statements. “We understand the potential backlash,” said one... Is There a Lawyer in the Church? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414414/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:46:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413095/posts The climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. The Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise in political theater. It not only failed to produce a binding agreement, but the potential emissions curbs it endorsed fall far below what climate orthodoxy demands, while the proposed wealth transfer from rich nations to poor nations is a political nonstarter. Back home, cap and trade legislation remains on life support, even though it has been significantly watered down so as to postpone real costs to consumers for a decade or more. In the midst of this... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413095/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412347/posts Part the first: All I Need Is The Air That I BreatheOn December 7, the EPA dramatically usurped Congressional authority and declared carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant... Part the second: Bridge Over Troubled WaterThe Waxman-Markey bill would have disastrous consequences for the entire nation. But it is a battle the Senate can’t win, at least this year. So the Senate has offered up a smaller power grab which would, of course, have more far-reaching consequences than a first glance might disclose... Part the third: This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My LandHaving taken over the air... Grand Rants http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412347/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:00:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411917/posts The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411917/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:14:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411706/posts The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former... telegraph Uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411706/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:34:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410516/posts Instead of “blackmailing” Congress, President Obama is “greenmailing” Congress by forcing them to comply with his order that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulate greenhouse gasses. But Congress—an institution not known to give up power without a fight—has yielded to the president prematurely. In fact, already Congress has enacted legislation that limits the regulatory power of the EPA. Last summer, Rep. Todd Tiahrt, (R-Kansas) passed an amendment to the EPA appropriations bill establishing that “none of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of... The Enterprise Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410516/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410424/posts CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Paul Schiffer, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, has already written legislation to repeal last Monday's decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling carbon dioxide a "pollutant." Paul Schiffer pledged to introduce and fight for this repeal in January 2011 after being elected in November 2010. Schiffer's legislation would leave in place all regulation of genuine pollution but exclude carbon dioxide from the definition of a pollutant in all Federal laws. This would strip the EPA of authority to regulate the carbon dioxide which plants breathe. It would also... Christian News Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410424/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410132/posts The Obama administration’s EPA ruling is an attempt to force Congress’s hand.Typically, when a law is passed or a regulation proposed, its champions believe that the action will be beneficial to society. But that’s not the case when it comes to steps that the Obama administration took last week, when Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson issued an “endangerment” finding that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are harmful pollutants and therefore subject to EPA regulation under the Clean Air Act. Jackson issued the finding largely because the Obama team believes—or at least thinks that Congress believes—that EPA regulation of CO2... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410132/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410135/posts Republican lawmakers said on Thursday they would try to block a Environmental Protection Agency proposal that opens the door to federal regulation of planet-warming gases. Last week, the EPA issued a ruling that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, clearing the way for the agency to regulate carbon without congressional legislation. Senator Lisa Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is leading an effort in the chamber to overturn the finding through a rarely used joint resolution of disapproval. Getting the proposal passed will be a heavy lift, since Republicans are a minority in both... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410135/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410083/posts In the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore argues that historically, when the levels of carbon dioxide rises that is cause the temperatures of earth to rise considerably. In his documentary, Gore explains that ice core records from the distant past proves this point. However, when the data is looked at in finer detail, it becomes obvious that temperature is driving the hight levels of carbon dioxide not the other way around as Gore and his fellow watermelon political allies would like us to believe. I call them watermelon because they may be green on the outside, but they are... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410083/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:08:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409668/posts Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule; Proposed Rule SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to tailor the major source applicability thresholds for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and title V programs of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and to set a PSD significance level for GHG emissions. This proposal is necessary because EPA expects soon to promulgate regulations under the CAA to control GHG emissions and, as a result, trigger PSD and title V applicability requirements for GHG emissions. The first phase, which would last 6 years, would... Federal Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409668/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409277/posts You can be the judge regarding whether the term blackmail should be attributed to the actions of government officials in the following two stories. framingthedialogue.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409277/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:05:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409199/posts Regulations: The Clean Water Act is being rewritten to give a government bureaucracy the power to regulate every body of water from the Mississippi River to a rain-flooded field. The first casualty may be American coal. With all the concern for the harm that cap-and-trade and regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant might do to the American economy and free markets, the Environmental Protection Agency is doing quite enough damage with an existing law on the books — the Clean Water Act. Congress plans to revise it to make it an even more powerful bludgeon against industry, energy producers and... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409199/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408101/posts Our revolution changed the world. Our Declaration of Independence proclaims self-evident truths: that all men are created equal; that they’re endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, among these are “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words shook a world held in the vise-grip of hereditary privilege, inspiring people around the globe. Our Constitution established a Representative Republic with a limited government of the people, by the people and for the people. We’ve watched as our constitutionally limited government grew until today its leviathan runs amok like Godzilla in Tokyo smashing things and scaring boy scouts. Today the... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408101/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406189/posts Tired of waiting for Congress to pass the “Cap-and-Trade” bill, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will initiate its own measures to control carbon dioxide emissions. The thrust of the EPA’s approach will be to determine a carbon emissions “budget” for every individual household and assess fines and penalties for those whose emissions exceed an allowable amount. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged that this approach would be more costly than a cap and trade system, but defended it as “leverage to induce Congress to take action. Carbon dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant because there are so many... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406189/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:47:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404744/posts Property rights are under assault on at least six different fronts, from all branches and levels of government. ... The unfortunate erosion of property rights has occurred despite a huge public backlash in the past several years against the Kelo v. New London decision in 2005.... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404744/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:39:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397107/posts Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry........ The data suggests that the level of anger is growing. The 71% who are angry at federal government policies today is up five percentage points since September. Even more stunning, the 46% who are Very Angry is up 10 percentage points from September. Rasmussen Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397107/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404657/posts Step aside, elected Members of Congress. If you can’t pass cap and trade legislation, The Environmental Protection Agency will move in with massively complex and costly regulations that would micromanage just about every aspect of the economy. They announced today that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten public health and the environment. Since 85 percent of the U.S. economy runs on fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, imposing a cost on CO2 is equivalent to placing an economy-wide tax on energy use. The kind of industrial-strength EPA red tape that the agency could enforce in the name... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404657/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:55:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404635/posts The EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant explains why the administration wasn’t too concerned over possible failure at Copenhagen. This was their Plan B. The finding is an environmental Sword of Damocles held over the head of the U.S. with a warning that if cap-and-trade legislation such as Waxman-Markey or Kerry-Boxer is not signed into law, the full regulatory fury of an unelected bureaucracy will be unleashed on the American people and the U.S. economy. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404635/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:24:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404595/posts When the Watergate break-in caused Richard Nixon to be pushed out of office, pundits said that it was the end of the "imperial Presidency." A President who was out of control US Presidency was out of control and that had exceeded the Constitutional limits of his power. I would submit that with the onset of Obama Presidency the imperial Presidency has come roaring back with a vengeance. First there is the matter of the oft-mentioned Czars. Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the... The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404595/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404501/posts Who needs Congress to help govern America? Not the Obama administration, it seems. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404501/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:38:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404451/posts Now everyone will have to wait to exhale, according to EPA Administrator Lisa Tito Jackson. The EPA's recent ruling that carbon dioxide endangered human health put the agency in direct conflict with power plants, factories, and human breathing. The creation of carbon dioxide is part of the breathing process. The body pulls in oxygen and breathes out CO2. (The two stands for "twice as bad as CO, which is a harmless gas used for killing people.) Jackson said breathing is extremely dangerous for humans. "There is now absolutely no doubt that carbon dioxide is harmful," said Jackson. "For example, it's... DotPenn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404451/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404427/posts Who needs Congress to help govern America? Not the Obama administration, it seems. At the UN Climate Control conference in Copenhagen yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson said that she wants to work with Congress to contain carbon emissions that her agency claims are "dangerous." "This is not an either/or moment. This is a both/and moment," Jackson said. Consider that the velvet glove covering the administration's extremist fist -- which had itself been revealed a day earlier in Washington. An Obama staffer -- speaking anonymously, of course -- told Fox News: "If [Congress doesn't] pass [emissions-control] legislation . .... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404427/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:12:58 GMT