Posted on 05/31/2011 6:53:32 PM PDT by Nachum
The Environmental Protection Agency informed Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) in a recent letter that it considers itself “prohibited” by law from considering costs when setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). “I received this week a letter from the EPA regarding a letter I’ve written them about some of their rules and they wrote here, quote, ‘Thus, the agency is prohibited from considering costs in setting these standards,'" Hartzler said last week. "Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well
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I suppose this is where the God Squad comes in.
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If you think we're going to vote our way out of this you are most sadly mistaken.
BS
What, no quality assurance initiative?
Didn’t Reagan cover this question in an executive order?
Cut funding the NAZI job killing agency.
Shut the bastards down!
Prohibited by law or so dedicated to destroying the US that they don’t care?
Politicians come and go, but these damned regulators are here for the long term. I agree with Jim. Shut them down!
Defund and dismantle the F’ing EPA. The *&^%&$&*’s don’t give a RATS behind how much their hairbrain schemes cost Americans.
Everyone in the EPA should be dragged out from behind their desks and hanged.
If that’s too mysterious or cumbersome, let’s use machineguns and mortars.
We can live with the Legislators, but the Bureaucrats are killing us.
If that really is the case, I think Congress has the power to require them to consider costs. This is exactly the kind of BS that goes on in DC that people want fixed, and in one big hurry.
And how many people have died recently ‘cause the air isn’t clean enough?
"Thus, the American People are not considering the positive effects of dissolving the EPA to enhance the return of manufacturing in the u.S. due to a potential perception of conflict of interest."
"Dissolving the EPA will eliminate ten billion a year from the national budget which is also a positive effect as we in the House are prohibited from not considering costs."
"We are dissolving the the EPA because they have simply become a pack of crap-flinging hooting monkeys."
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One of President Reagan’s worst mistakes was not eliminating the EPA, the Energy Dept. and the Education Dept. These malignant agencies are enemies of freedom.
I don't think there are words of sufficiently few syllables to explain it to them that they can be made to understand.
That is the case and has been the case for a long time. This has been argued before the courts numerous times.
The cost benefit analysis is done at the state level. EPA sets the standards and the states determine how to meet the standards.
A good example is playing out in Texas right now. The lege just passed the bill on nat gas as motor fuel. This is being paid for with money from a fund that had been set up to reduce emissions from off road construction equipment. Somebody did a cost benefit analysis and found that shifting the money would reduce more emissions per dollar.
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