[Newsbot]

Title: Obama EPA Issues Coal-Killing Rules To Cut Carbon Emissions 30 Percent
Category: Business
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2014-06-03 11:07:43

[N_Fiddledog]

Here's another view on this one.

"Having failed to get the Democrats� cap-and-trade scheme through Congress, President Obama intends to create it through fiat, with the Environmental Protection Agency scheduled to issue today what amounts to a bill of attainder against coal-fired electricity generators. The regulation will set a national limit on greenhouse-gas emissions from coal plants and then offer states a phony menu of choices for meeting that standard, stacking the policy deck in such a way as to force them into cap-and-trade programs administered by multistate cartels.

It is far from obvious that the Obama administration has anything like the legal authority for this; until quite recently, the White House seemed to think that it was necessary for Congress � remember Congress, the lawmaking branch of government? � to pass a law creating a cap-and-trade program, but, having lost that vote, President Obama is pressing on in rule-by-decree mode, apparently having mistaken himself for Charles de Gaulle..."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... re-editors

[BartSimpson]

The Dictator in Chief does it again.

[xerxes]

$1:

How can Obama do this without Congress? He'll be working through the Environmental Protection Agency, which already has the legal authority to regulate US greenhouse gases.

Since 2009, the EPA has used that authority to ratchet up fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks. Then, last year, the agency imposed strict carbon standards on anyone who wants to build a new coal or gas plant in the future.

Now the agency is going even further. The EPA's newest proposal will require the nation's power plants to cut their carbon-dioxide emissions 25 percent in the 2020s and 30 percent by 2030 — compared to 2005 levels.

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/1/5770556/EPA-power-plant-rules-explainer

[Thanos]

The Congress only wants to discuss things it's guaranteed to defeat in time for the next election cycle.

[N_Fiddledog]

The campaign promise Obama kept.

[Jabberwalker]

So much for electing Democrats in Appalachia.

Actually, it's hard to get it right. Go after coal ... lose Appalachia. Go after frakking, lose the West. Go after oil, lose the Gulf states. Go after nuclear, lose the Northeast ... etc. ... etc.

Fractious bunch of nutters, eh?

[andyt]

I like what the woman from the EPA said: they predicted the death of the automobile industry when we brought in pollution controls on cars, now we have more cars than ever. They predicted the end of electric power when we took on sulphur emissions, now we have no acid rain and still have electricity. It's always the same crowd, same as the ones that cry doom for a minimum wage increase, and still this same crowd manages to earn more money than 90% of population put together.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

I like what the woman from the EPA said: they predicted the death of the automobile industry when we brought in pollution controls on cars, now we have more cars than ever. They predicted the end of electric power when we took on sulphur emissions, now we have no acid rain and still have electricity. It's always the same crowd, same as the ones that cry doom for a minimum wage increase, and still this same crowd manages to earn more money than 90% of population put together.

And sh*theads like you don't see the link between ever-increasing energy costs, higher production costs, and the obviating of your pathetic, limp-d***ed minimum wage.

[Xort]

The only real solution is more nuclear power. I guess the 6 current plants projected to come online in the next 15 years is a start.