Obama Uses EPA to Inflict Economically Devastating “Climate” Regulations

Jun
02
2014

The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on Monday by mandating a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil fuel-burning power plants by 2030 — despite claims the regulation will cost nearly a quarter-million jobs a year and force plants across the country to close.

Coal provides us with 40% of our electricity. Obama has made it clear he wants the industry destroyed. This could be the death blow.

Democrats tried to impose similar regulations by constitutional means, when they controlled both houses of Congress. But due to fear of voters’ wrath among some elected officials, they failed. So,

The draft regulation sidesteps Congress, where Obama’s Democratic allies have failed to pass a so-called “cap-and-trade” plan to limit such emissions.

Under the plan, carbon emissions would be reduced 30 percent by 2030, compared with 2005 levels. The proposal sets off a complex regulatory process in which the 50 states will each determine how to meet customized targets set by the EPA.

Not by Congress. By the EPA, which is now calling the shots in Washington because Congress has to face the voters and therefore has proven unable to implement Obama’s malevolent agenda.

If a state refuses to create a plan, the EPA can make its own.

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Not by Congress. By the EPA, which is now calling the shots in Washington because Congress has to face the voters and therefore has proven unable to implement Obama’s malevolent agenda.

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Congress implements the 'malevolent agenda' passively i.e. by not stopping it. Having the EPS do it is just politicla cover.

Congress could shut down funding for the EPA. The power of the purse resides in the House.