Effective 2011, if a state wants to wants to construct a new Coal fired power plant, their plans must include mitigation of CO2 emissions to address the global warming fraud. Via the EPA:
The Clean Air Act requires states to develop EPA-approved implementation plans that include requirements for issuing air permits. When federal permitting requirements change, as they did after EPA finalized the GHG Tailoring Rule, states may need to modify these plans.
In the first rule, EPA is proposing to require permitting programs in 13 states to make changes to their implementation plans to ensure that GHG emissions will be covered. All other states that implement an EPA-approved air permitting program must review their existing permitting authority and inform EPA if their programs do not address GHG emissions.
Because some states may not be able to develop and submit revisions to their plans before the Tailoring Rule becomes effective in 2011, in the second rule, EPA is proposing a federal implementation plan, which would allow EPA to issue permits for large GHG emitters located in these states. This would be a temporary measure that is in place until the state can revise its own plan and resume responsibility for GHG permitting.
This is is the implementation by fiat of the fatally flawed Progressive Federalism concept where the Federal Government establishes regulatory floors rather than having states regulate themselves, and it will not work.
And we all know that this is going to cause more economic distress. Via Alan Caruba @ Warning Signs:
What it doesn’t say is that this power to regulate that does not exist in the present Clean Air Act.
It will cause electricity costs to skyrocket along with gasoline and all other oil derivatives. It will utterly wreck the U.S. economy that is already in dire straits.
If an invading nation had imposed these kinds of restrictions on Americans, we would be in the streets with guns and any other means to fight them.
There is NO global warming. Carbon dioxide plays NO role in this non-event.
This is regulation by deception, by lies, by the arrogance of environmentalists who view the human race as a cancer on the planet.
Thank you Richard Nixon for giving us the EPA:
The EPA is completely out of control and needs to be reined in by congress.
Pelosi and Reid will not stop the EPA. They should, but they won’t.
The executive powers are broad through these types of actions. Not legitimate, but broad.
Congress can defund, but strangely, even sans a budget, the government is operating right now.
Great point about the federal government not having a budget. What is even more crazy, is they have don’t have the money to do what they are doing.
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Proof once again that the devil is in the detail. The amount of power these non-elected bureaucracies hold is awesome and terrifying. The entire framework of regulation is made up of thousands of mini-facists busily figuring out how to control more.
God help us when they get to work on healthcare.
Between the two bureaucracies (health care and EPA) the government will control nearly every facet of our lives.
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