E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas EmissionsMr. Boucher can stop this. Through legislation. That's what he was sent to Congress by the people of Southwest Virginia to do, after all.
By John M. Broder, New York Times
Washington — Unwilling to wait for Congress to act, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it was moving forward on new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from hundreds of power plants and large industrial facilities.
President Obama has said that he prefers a comprehensive legislative approach to regulating emissions and stemming global warming, not a piecemeal application of rules, and that he is deeply committed to passage of a climate bill this year.
But he has authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to begin moving toward regulation, which could goad lawmakers into reaching an agreement. It could also provide evidence of the United States’ seriousness as negotiators prepare for United Nations talks in Copenhagen in December intended to produce an international agreement to combat global warming. [link]
Does he have the gonads? Does he even care?
Guess we're about to find out.
Earn your paycheck, pal.
Stop this. NOW.
2 comments:
Where did the POTUS, FLOTUS, and TOTUS get the 'right' to do all this crazy sh**? Evidently they had a condtitution burning and the citizens weren't invited. Every member of the white house should be under 500 or so criminal indictments by now, that is if we had a USAG.
X-Firefighter
The EPA thing is part of Boucher's justification:
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/220060
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Some have asked why Boucher is working so hard to pass a bill that could well be detrimental to his district. Boucher counters that a March 2007 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court established carbon dioxide as a pollutant subject to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency. If Congress doesn't address the issue of regulation, Boucher said the EPA will -- and without the nuance that legislators can consider.
The EPA cannot "balance the need for economic sustainability against environmental regulation," Boucher said. "We can and we have done that in the bill that's passed the House."
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So you can see this as:
1) Boucher being proven right, or
2) A slick move by the White House using one of its agencies to try and apply pressure on Congress to pass this bill.
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