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[eagle1462010]

Sen. Inhofe to Force Congressional Review of All New Major EPA Clean Air Regs | CNS News

Sen. James Inhofe (R- OK) is taking a stand against the steady stream of job-killing, price-raising regulations coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Inhofe says he'll force Congressional review of any new EPA regulations relating to the Clean Air Act from going into effect until the agency conducts a full review of these policies and their impact on the American economy.

Sen. Inhofe announced Tuesday that he will be filing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) report on any major EPA regulation that is introduced under President Obama until Congress either passes his bill, S. 2161, into law or the EPA starts abiding by Sec. 321(a) of the Clean Air Act.

http://www.epw.senate.gov/envlaws/cleanair.pdf

page 324

 

[eagle1462010]

This will force the EPA into studies on the economic impact of their regulations. Under the Clean Air Act they must do economic impact studies to insure they show the potential economic damage and consequences of the new regulations.

Sen. Inhofe to Force Congressional Review of All New Major EPA Clean Air Regs | CNS News

Utility MACT rule (77 Fed. Reg. 9301): EPA's analysis of the Utility MACT rule estimated that implementation of the final rule would result in the creation of 46,000 temporary construction jobs and 8,000 net new permanent jobs. NERA's whole economy analysis found that the rule would have a negative impact on the income of workers in an amount equivalent to 180,000 to 215,000 lost jobs in 2014, and 50,000 to 85,000 lost jobs each year thereafter.

Cross State Air Pollution rule (76 Fed. Reg. 48208): The EPA's analysis of the Cross State Air Pollution rule estimated that implementation of the final rule would result in the creation of 700 jobs per year. NERA's whole economy analysis found that the rule would result in the elimination of a total of 34,000 jobs from 2013 to 2037.

Boiler MACT rule (76 Fed. Reg. 15608): EPA's analysis of the Boiler MACT rule estimated that implementation of the final rule would result in the creation of 2,200 jobs per year. NERA's whole economy analysis found that the rule would result in the elimination of 28,000 jobs per year from 2013 to 2037.

 

[eagle1462010]

EPA killing jobs should have been the title.

But that's what these federal agencies do.............Kill jobs.............but it's to save us of course.

 

[Edgetho]

The EPA needs to be shut down. Period.

Then start a new agency tasked with the same job but with a ban on hiring former EPA employees or their relatives.

The current EPA is beyond redeemable. It needs to go.

Period

 

[eagle1462010]

Oil & Gas Boom 2014: A Withering Regulatory Assault - Forbes

Also on March 28, the White House released an outline of its long-awaited Climate Action Plan Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions. The strategy would initiate a process whose ultimate goal would be EPA regulation of methane emissions at several points along the upstream, midstream and downstream supply chain for natural gas, as well as the coal industry and landfills.


Coincidentally, on April 1, the House Budget Committee under Chairman Paul Ryan issued its proposed 2015 budget.

In his statement accompanying the release, Rep. Ryan criticized the Administration for creating nearly $500 billion in additional annual regulatory activity costs associated with compliance since 2009.

“The President has installed a heavy-handed compliance culture dependent on regulations, favorable tax treatment and spending on administration-favored constituencies. This administration has proposed more economically significant regulations in four years than previous administrations have in the past 15 years combined,” Ryan said.

Mr. Ryan was of course speaking globally about the Administration’s impacts across the economy, but no sector has been more impacted by this unending assault than has oil and gas. And almost three more years of this fun still to come.

 

[eagle1462010]

The EPA needs to be shut down. Period.

Then start a new agency tasked with the same job but with a ban on hiring former EPA employees or their relatives.

The current EPA is beyond redeemable. It needs to go.

Period

Obama is using the EPA to attack the oil and gas industries PERIOD. He made promises to attack this industry and has done so. They have implemented regulations that are costing these industries Billions to comply, thus raising prices for EVERY AMERICAN, yet the left states they are for the little people.

Problem is the little people have trouble seeing the fact that they are being screwed by the ASS party as the Dems keep saying they are for them. Utility prices are going up as a result of their policies to comply with Federal Agencies creating new regulations using broad interpretation of ACTS.

 

[Old Rocks]

Yep. And then we can have water as clean as the rivers in China, and air as pristine as that in Bejing. I am sure that you can sell your vision of what America should look like to the voters.

 

[eagle1462010]

Yep. And then we can have water as clean as the rivers in China, and air as pristine as that in Bejing. I am sure that you can sell your vision of what America should look like to the voters.

Nothing but Pravda posts..........

We have EPA standards out the butt here, and to compare us to China is utter BS.

This is about Obama and the Dems attack on Fossil Fuels PERIOD. Creating new regulations to kill them via regulations. Causing energy prices to go up up and away for the American people. Costing Billions to implement, and KILLING JOBS.............

Killing jobs..........Something the ASS party is good at.

 

[eagle1462010]

Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State | Competitive Enterprise Institute

Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State
Ten Thousand Commandments is an annual report by CEI Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the growing compliance costs of federal regulations. The purpose of the report is to hold legislators and regulators accountable for the regulatory burdens they impose on American business owners, workers, and families.

The Ass party doesn't think 80,000 pages of CFR's is enough per year. A new regulation every 2 and a 1/2 hours into the CFR.

Oh, but we need more....................

How many regulations is enough.........................

 

[Wildman]

Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State | Competitive Enterprise Institute

Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State
Ten Thousand Commandments is an annual report by CEI Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the growing compliance costs of federal regulations. The purpose of the report is to hold legislators and regulators accountable for the regulatory burdens they impose on American business owners, workers, and families.

The Ass party doesn't think 80,000 pages of CFR's is enough per year. A new regulation every 2 and a 1/2 hours into the CFR.

Oh, but we need more....................

How many regulations is enough.........................

for the libercRATS, not enough until they have regulated every kitchen and bedroom in every American home.

 

[occupied]

Must be a bunch of young kids on this thread who are too young to remember what it was like before we had strong environmental protections, industry will pollute every bit as much as they can get away with and that's the truth.

 

[eagle1462010]

Must be a bunch of young kids on this thread who are too young to remember what it was like before we had strong environmental protections, industry will pollute every bit as much as they can get away with and that's the truth.

Must be a member of the Ass Party making that statement as the left ignores the damage of new regulations..............

Support the left and you support high utility bills.
Support the left and you support the attack against fossil fuels.

The strategy of the left is to push fossil fuel prices through the roof in an attempt to actually make solar and wind affordable. Which they aren't now.

The attack via the EPA continues, at the cost of Billions upon Billions to the country, and massive losses to employment in the oil, gas, and COAL industries.

 

[occupied]

Must be a bunch of young kids on this thread who are too young to remember what it was like before we had strong environmental protections, industry will pollute every bit as much as they can get away with and that's the truth.

Must be a member of the Ass Party making that statement as the left ignores the damage of new regulations..............

Support the left and you support high utility bills.
Support the left and you support the attack against fossil fuels.

The strategy of the left is to push fossil fuel prices through the roof in an attempt to actually make solar and wind affordable. Which they aren't now.

The attack via the EPA continues, at the cost of Billions upon Billions to the country, and massive losses to employment in the oil, gas, and COAL industries.

You must really like toxic pollution, do you get a buzz off of it?

 

[eagle1462010]

Must be a bunch of young kids on this thread who are too young to remember what it was like before we had strong environmental protections, industry will pollute every bit as much as they can get away with and that's the truth.

Must be a member of the Ass Party making that statement as the left ignores the damage of new regulations..............

Support the left and you support high utility bills.
Support the left and you support the attack against fossil fuels.

The strategy of the left is to push fossil fuel prices through the roof in an attempt to actually make solar and wind affordable. Which they aren't now.

The attack via the EPA continues, at the cost of Billions upon Billions to the country, and massive losses to employment in the oil, gas, and COAL industries.

You must really like toxic pollution, do you get a buzz off of it?

Your statement is boring. As already posted we have a mountain of regulations. I shown the data on the CFR's and you are simply using your standard Ass Party tactics to deflect your party's true intent.

On another thread now, the Solar power has changed permits to burn more natural gas to run it's boilers...............If solar is so great in it's production why is that modern facility needing more natural Gas......................

Ok, so now they need more natural gas............So let's say they need a pipeline to do so.........................will your side cry like little sheep over the new lines as usual.............

You can't have it both ways, and your straw arguments avoiding the data at hand are typical of your party and it's lies.

 

[eagle1462010]

EPA's Secret And Costly 'Sue And Settle' Collusion With Environmental Organizations - Forbes

Sue and Settle “ practices, sometimes referred to as “friendly lawsuits”, are cozy deals through which far-left radical environmental groups file lawsuits against federal agencies wherein court-ordered “consent decrees” are issued based upon a prearranged settlement agreement they collaboratively craft together in advance behind closed doors. Then, rather than allowing the entire process to play out, the agency being sued settles the lawsuit by agreeing to move forward with the requested action they and the litigants both want.

In other words, the agency throws the case, somewhat like Bre’r Rabbit agreeing to be thrown into a favorite brier-patch. A big difference however, is that in this case, Farmer McGregor andMr. Rabbit were partners in the scam from the beginning. It’s the unwary American public that actually does get caught in the thorns.

While the environmental group is given a seat at the table, outsiders who are most impacted are excluded, with no opportunity to object to the settlements. Accordingly, both the litigants and the defendant agency, operating in coffee bars and friendly courtroom shadows, avoid the harsh outside glare of oversight. No public notice about the settlement is released until the agreement is filed in court…after the damage has been done.

On top of all that, we taxpayers, including those impacted regulatory victims, are put on the hook for legal fees of both colluding parties. According to a 2011 GAO report, this amounted to millions of dollars awarded to environmental organizations for EPA litigations between 1995 and 2010. Three “Big Green” groups received 41% of this payback: Earthjustice, $4,655,425 (30%); the Sierra Club, $966,687; and the Natural Resources Defense Council, $252,004. Most of this was paid to environmental attorneys in connection to lawsuits filed under the Clean Air Act, followed next by the Clean Water Act.

 

[bripat9643]

Yep. And then we can have water as clean as the rivers in China, and air as pristine as that in Bejing. I am sure that you can sell your vision of what America should look like to the voters.

There is absolutely no danger of our air getting anywhere close to the air in Beijing. When I look out my window I see clear skies and clear air. We don't need anymore regulations. Obama is simply trying to drive the carbon fuel industries out of business. It has nothing to do with any concern about clean air. Anyone who claims it does is simply a sleazy lying scumbag.

 

[bripat9643]

Must be a bunch of young kids on this thread who are too young to remember what it was like before we had strong environmental protections, industry will pollute every bit as much as they can get away with and that's the truth.

Must be a member of the Ass Party making that statement as the left ignores the damage of new regulations..............

Support the left and you support high utility bills.
Support the left and you support the attack against fossil fuels.

The strategy of the left is to push fossil fuel prices through the roof in an attempt to actually make solar and wind affordable. Which they aren't now.

The attack via the EPA continues, at the cost of Billions upon Billions to the country, and massive losses to employment in the oil, gas, and COAL industries.

You must really like toxic pollution, do you get a buzz off of it?

It's apparent that you have suffered brain damage as a result of breathing in the fumes from the wet ink on the massive piles of EPA regulations.

 

[Mr. H.]

Oil & Gas Boom 2014: A Withering Regulatory Assault - Forbes

Also on March 28, the White House released an outline of its long-awaited Climate Action Plan Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions. The strategy would initiate a process whose ultimate goal would be EPA regulation of methane emissions at several points along the upstream, midstream and downstream supply chain for natural gas, as well as the coal industry and landfills.


Coincidentally, on April 1, the House Budget Committee under Chairman Paul Ryan issued its proposed 2015 budget.

In his statement accompanying the release, Rep. Ryan criticized the Administration for creating nearly $500 billion in additional annual regulatory activity costs associated with compliance since 2009.

“The President has installed a heavy-handed compliance culture dependent on regulations, favorable tax treatment and spending on administration-favored constituencies. This administration has proposed more economically significant regulations in four years than previous administrations have in the past 15 years combined,” Ryan said.

Mr. Ryan was of course speaking globally about the Administration’s impacts across the economy, but no sector has been more impacted by this unending assault than has oil and gas. And almost three more years of this fun still to come.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy quickly moved to reassure the Agricultural industry that their existing exemptions under the CWA would not be impacted...

THIS is the most egregious crock of shit...

 

[Silhouette]

Sen. Inhofe to Force Congressional Review of All New Major EPA Clean Air Regs | CNS News

Sen. James Inhofe (R- OK) is taking a stand against the steady stream of job-killing, price-raising regulations coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Inhofe says he'll force Congressional review of any new EPA regulations relating to the Clean Air Act from going into effect until the agency conducts a full review of these policies and their impact on the American economy.

Sen. Inhofe announced Tuesday that he will be filing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) report on any major EPA regulation that is introduced under President Obama until Congress either passes his bill, S. 2161, into law or the EPA starts abiding by Sec. 321(a) of the Clean Air Act.

http://www.epw.senate.gov/envlaws/cleanair.pdf

page 324

Oh my yes. I can hardly wait to have the air quality of China. Not to mention the water quality of..well Hell actually. Once you pollute an aquifer, the entire region it serves in residential and agriculture becomes an irretrievable dead-zone.

Speaking of dead-zones, the fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico basically is no more. All that job-killing petrolium drilling, refining, fertilizer washout from pesticides etc. in the Midwest sure are taking a toll on jobs.

And if the earthquakes around fracking sites set off Yellowstone or the New Madrid fault line for another 8 or greater quake, there will be a lot of jobs lost when whole towns lose huge chunks of infrastructure.

We get it. Some of you rich guys are heavily invested in the smudgy, shitty, dirty industry of petrochemicals. You don't want to adjust your portfolio, so naturally you stoop to demonizing clean energy and job creation there to keep your profits rolling rolling rolling along like nothing's wrong with what you're up to.

The real jobs are in progress. Not in clinging like a desperate school girl to an old outdated, last-century predominant reliance on fossil fuels.. Time to wean these little babies from the dark, shriveling, oily teat IMHO.

Imagine the history books: "Thanks to some ignorant greedy turd Senator from Oklahoma [not like the Soil Conservation Service was born from ignorant Oakies misjudging environmental issues before], the Ogallala Aquifer and all the Midwest agriculture was poisoned forever and cannot be cleaned up from fracking wells cracking in the earthquakes caused injecting lubricant corrosives into the deep layers of fault-ridden shale layers". Take two pieces of roughish rock whose friction is holding it together from slipping in opposite directions. Now inject at high pressure a corrosive lubricant between the two. See what happens? Earthquake faults are held together essentially by the surface tension between competing layers pulling in different directions by deep earth crustal movement. Fracking is like skid greasing these into instant rupture.

I'm just about done with ignorance ruling science in this country. It's a matter of national security at this point. Can you imagine if we lose the ability to grow crops or if Europe or other countries start finding toxic chemicals at increasing rates systemic in Midwest food products? You think our economy sucks now, just wait until that happens.

 

[bripat9643]

Sen. Inhofe to Force Congressional Review of All New Major EPA Clean Air Regs | CNS News

Sen. James Inhofe (R- OK) is taking a stand against the steady stream of job-killing, price-raising regulations coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Inhofe says he'll force Congressional review of any new EPA regulations relating to the Clean Air Act from going into effect until the agency conducts a full review of these policies and their impact on the American economy.

Sen. Inhofe announced Tuesday that he will be filing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) report on any major EPA regulation that is introduced under President Obama until Congress either passes his bill, S. 2161, into law or the EPA starts abiding by Sec. 321(a) of the Clean Air Act.

http://www.epw.senate.gov/envlaws/cleanair.pdf

page 324

Oh my yes. I can hardly wait to have the air quality of China. Not to mention the water quality of..well Hell actually. Once you pollute an aquifer, the entire region it serves in residential and agriculture becomes an irretrievable dead-zone.

Speaking of dead-zones, the fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico basically is no more. All that job-killing petrolium drilling, refining, fertilizer washout from pesticides etc. in the Midwest sure are taking a toll on jobs.

And if the earthquakes around fracking sites set off Yellowstone or the New Madrid fault line for another 8 or greater quake, there will be a lot of jobs lost when whole towns lose huge chunks of infrastructure.

We get it. Some of you rich guys are heavily invested in the smudgy, shitty, dirty industry of petrochemicals. You don't want to adjust your portfolio, so naturally you stoop to demonizing clean energy and job creation there to keep your profits rolling rolling rolling along like nothing's wrong with what you're up to.

Everything you posted is utter horseshit. Fishing is great in the Gulf of Mexico. Tourism by fisherman is one of the biggest industries in Florida. Fracking will never set off more than minor tremors. In fact, it would be a good thing if it did because the stress in faults like the San Andreas would be relieved gradually instead of in one fell swoop. A thousand earthquakes registering 2.5 on the Richter scale is far preferable to one big one registering 8.5.

The real jobs are in progress. Not in clinging like a desperate school girl to an old outdated, last-century predominant reliance on fossil fuels.. Time to wean these little babies from the dark, shriveling, oily teat IMHO.

Is that why the economy of North Dakota is booming while all the green crony capitalists are going bankrupt?