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Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases
UnknowingFool writes In Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled against the EPA on some limits to greenhouse gases but also upheld other limits. In a 5-4 partial decision, the high court ruled that EPA overstepped their authority in requiring permits only for greenhouse gases for new and modified facilities using the Clean Air act. Such regulatory action can only be granted by Congress. But in the same case on a 7-2 decision, the court ruled that the EPA can enforce greenhouse gas limits on facilities that already require permits for other air pollutants. This leaves intact most of the new regulations proposed by the Obama administration earlier this month as many coal plants produce other air pollutants that can be regulated by the EPA.
Greenhouse gasses are a liberal myth. Liberals would like nothing more than to destroy the hard-working middle class and make everyone equally poor.
Do we really want executive agencies making up new rules without Congressional authority?
Congress ain't great, unilateral creation of new laws by an unchecked executive authority is known as "dictatorship".
What the Supreme Court actually did was to disallow direct regulation of CO2 unless the EPA actually wants to attempt to regulate ALL producers of >250 tons annually, which is impractical.
What the EPA intended to do was to regulate producers of >100,000 tons annually, with the possibility of reducing that threshold over time as we get handle on the issue.
What the Supreme Court did leave intact is the ability to regulate CO2 production by producers who are already regulated for other reasons 'anyway'.
That does happen to match up fairly well with what the EPA intended to do originally, but does not allow the flexibility to regulate CO2 producers who do not produce large amounts of other pollution.
Well then Congress shouldn't give them that power? That was the court's finding, that Congress had already authorized the EPA to regulate any gases produced at a plant that also produces named pollutants. So CO2 gets lumped in with the rest under their blanket authority over existing polluters. Which is why they struck down the ability to expand their authority to non-polluting entities. It was outside their existing jurisdiction.
Congress does that a lot, authorizes blanket authority, and then bitches when it gets exercised. It's like they don't read the bills they pass or something...
Magic doesn't work in my presence. My power of disbelief is too strong.
CO2 is what animals exhale and plants breathe. If CO2 is a pollutant, then so is rainwater. And soon no law has meaning, once they are all subject to such fun-house-mirror distortion. War is peace, freedom is slavery, comrade!
CO2 is what animals exhale and plants breathe. If CO2 is a pollutant, then so is rainwater. And soon no law has meaning, once they are all subject to such fun-house-mirror distortion. War is peace, freedom is slavery, comrade!
BUT the CO2 that has been buried for millions of years, CO2 that was in the atmosphere before we existed is being released. That release is changing our atmosphere and will make life much more difficult for us humans. There will be massive wars over resources and other socioeconomic problems.
Never the less, with all the people fighting tooth and nail to protect interests that don't give a damn about people's health and well being, not enough will be done. So, conservatives you will more than likely get most of you wishes.
Your children and grandchildren will be living in a horrific World of wars, water shortages, food prices spiraling out of control, and a cost of living that will make you cringe.
One way or another, our way of life WILL end. That is a certainty. Our way of life is NOT sustainable - especially when there are 7 billion people and rising on this planet who want our wasteful and shallow way of life.
Now, it's up to us what kind of World we want for our children and grandchildren to have or even what kind of World we want. After all, we WILL start seeing massive changes in only a couple more decades.
I, for one, am doing what I can to make changes and lower my footprint on this Earth. As Ghandi said, 'Be the change you want.'
This is just laughable.
First it was 'catastrophic man-made global warming'.
Then they changed that to 'climate change', which is obviously NOT 'catastrophic man-made global warming', but they IMPLY that it is, EVERY time they use that laughable phrase 'climate change'. The 'climate' is ALWAYS 'changing'.
Now it's 'greenhouse gases', IMPLYING CO2, but not saying it. This is just SO sickeningly obvious, how can anybody fall for this nonsense?
"The scandal of fiddling global warming data":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10916086/The-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html
www.climatedepot.com
Capitalism is a conservative myth. Conservatives would like nothing more than to destroy the hard-working middle class minorities and make all minorities slaves once again.
If a plant managed to find a process to capture all chemicals and have 0 pollutants other than CO2, this would give them a way to also be free of CO2 regulations.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
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The EPA can continue to undermine the economy in pursuit of fairy tales.
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
And watch America commit economic hari-kari for the pleasure of its corrupt climate pimps.