ScreamingEagle
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So Obama wants to eliminate almost a MILLION jobs by imposing impossible EPA regs....?
...and then on top of that let the Chinese ship us cement (how stupid is that).....which former working people used to make right here.......cement which the Chinese will then make without any EPA regs.....can this get any dumber....?
or should we say MORE INTENDED DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA....?
...and then on top of that let the Chinese ship us cement (how stupid is that).....which former working people used to make right here.......cement which the Chinese will then make without any EPA regs.....can this get any dumber....?
or should we say MORE INTENDED DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA....?
New standards for commercial and industrial boilers: up to 798,250 jobs at risk;
The revised National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone: severe restrictions on job creation and business expansion in hundreds of counties nationwide.
New standards for Portland Cement plants: up to 18 cement plants at risk of shutting down, threatening nearly 1,800 direct jobs and 9,000 indirect jobs;
The Endangerment Finding/Tailoring Rules for Greenhouse Gas Emissions: higher energy costs; jobs moving overseas; severe economic impacts on the poor, the elderly, minorities, and those on fixed incomes; 6.1 million sources subject to EPA control and regulation;
In fact, the new regulations threaten to put entire industries out of business. The new standard for boilers, titled National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters and called the Boiler MACT, creates a standard that literally no producer in the US meets at the moment. The industry group Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) represents end-user firms that employ 750,000 in various industries, and they concur:
IECA members have 6 units that were part of the best performing units and none can comply with the standards based on the best performing units. Based on the analysis of the data EPA used to develop these standards, it appears that none of the coal-fired boilers in the source category can meet the proposed standards.
What happens when the installed boilers dont meet the new standard? Factories and other facilities will have to close, putting jobs in danger and firms already hammered by the recession will lose production days which will destroy jobs. Thats why the United Steel Workers have sounded the alarm, insisting that the EPAs proposal will mean disaster:
Tens of thousands of these jobs will be imperiled. In addition, many more tens of thousands of jobs in the supply chains and in the communities where these plants are located also will be at risk.
Nor are steelworkers the only group at risk. New industrial standards for Portland cement threaten to stop all American production in the name of environmental protection and send the work overseas to China, where ironically the standards are more lax and more pollution will result:
So rather than importing 20 million tons of cement per year, the proposed [rule] will lead to cement imports of more than 48 million tons per year. In other words, by tightening the regulations on U.S. cement kilns, there will be a risk transfer of some 28 million tons of cement offshore, mostly to China.
Hot Air Exclusive: EPW report shows new EPA rules will cost more than 800,000 jobs