There are many things I do not like about the Environmental
Protection Agency, but what angers me most are the lies that stream forth
from it to justify programs that have no basis in fact or science and which
threaten the economy.
Currently, its “Clean Power” plan is generating its latest and most duplicitous Administer (sic), Gina McCarthy, to go around saying that it will not be costly, nor cost jobs. “Clean Power” is the name given to the EPA policy to reduce overall U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It is requiring each state to cut its emissions by varying amounts using a baseline established by the EPA.
Currently, its “Clean Power” plan is generating its latest and most duplicitous Administer (sic), Gina McCarthy, to go around saying that it will not be costly, nor cost jobs. “Clean Power” is the name given to the EPA policy to reduce overall U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It is requiring each state to cut its emissions by varying amounts using a baseline established by the EPA.
Simply said, there is no need whatever to reduce CO2 emissions.
Carbon dioxide is not “a pollutant” as the EPA claims. It is, along with
oxygen for all living creatures, vital to the growth of all vegetation.
The more CO2 the better crops yields will occur, healthier forests, and
greener lawns. From a purely scientific point of view, it is absurd to reduce
emissions.
Writing in The
Wall Street Journal on April 22, Kenneth C. Hill,
Director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, said “Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
set off a firestorm when he advised states not to comply with the Environmental
Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Yet that advice isn’t as radical as
his detractors make it sound. As a state public utilities commissioner
who deals with the effects of federal regulations on a regular basis, I
also recommend that states not comply.”
Noting its final due date in June, that refusal would
impose a Federal Implementation Plan on states “that risks even greater
harm,” said Hill. “But the problem for the EPA is that the federal government
lacks the legal authority under either the Constitution or the Clean Air
Act to enforce most of the regulation’s ‘building blocks’ without states’
acquiescence.”
As this is being written, there are two joined cases before
the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, State
of West Virginia v. EPA and Murray
Energy v. EPA. They are a challenge to President Obama’s “War on
Coal” and the EPA efforts to regulate its use. Fifteen states, along with
select coal companies, have sued for an “extraordinary whit” (writ) to prevent
the EPA from promulgating the new carbon regulations found it the Clean
Power plan.
Writing in The
Hill, Richard O. Faulk,
an attorney and senior director for Energy Natural Resources and the Environment
for the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University, noted that
“The EPA’s argument confidently hinges on convincing the courts that the
Clean Air Act doesn’t mean what it says. By its plain language, the bill prohibits the EPA from regulating
the power plants from which these emissions derive. Moreover, coal plants are
already addressed under an entirely different section of the bill than the
one EPA insists justifies its powers.”
The latest news, as reported by Myron Ebell, the director for energy and environment of the Competitive
Enterprise Institute, is that “Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week introduced a bill to
block the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants. S.
1324, the Affordable Reliable Energy Now Act, has 26 original co-sponsors, including Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee
Chairman James M. Inhofe
(R-Okla.), and Democrat Joe Manchin
(D-W.Va.).”
“Both Majority Leader McConnell and Chairman Inhofe have
said that they are determined to stop the EPA’s greenhouse gas rules, so I
expect quick action to move Capito’s bill. In the House, a bill to block
the rules, H. R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, was voted out of the
House Energy and Commerce Committee on 29th April and is awaiting floor
action.”
It’s worth noting that, when Obama took office, 50% of
America’s electrical energy was supplied by coal-fired plants and, just 6
years later, that has been reduced by 10%. What kind of President would deliberately
reduce American’s access to affordable power?
It’s the same kind of President that believes—or says he
does—the pronouncements of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. The IPCC’s “Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report” claims that world
will face “severe, pervasive, and irreversible damage” if coal-fired and
other carbon-based—coal, oil, and natural gas—energy sources are not replaced
with “renewable energy sources”—wind and solar—by 2050. It wants fossil-fueled
power generation “phased out almost entirely by 2100.” Now this is
just insanity, unless your agenda is to destroy the world’s economic system
and kill millions. That would be the only outcome of the IPCC
recommendations.
The columnist Larry Bell, a
professor at the University of Houston, points out that, “As for
expecting renewables to fill in the power curve, European Union experiences
offer a painful reality check. Approximately 7.8% of Germany’s electricity
comes from wind, 4.5% from solar. Large (sic) as
a result, German households already fork out for the second highest power
costs in Europe—often as much as 30% above the levels seen in other European
countries. Power interruptions add to buyer’s remorse.”
As reported in The Heartland Institute’s Environment & Climate News,
“European governments, once at the vanguard of renewable energy mandates,
appear to be having second thoughts about their reliance on giant wind
farms…” There has been a sharp drop in such projects with installations plunging
90% in Denmark, 75% in Italy, and 84% in Spain.
What the EPA is attempting to impose on America is a drain
on our production of electricity coupled with an increase in its price. It
is an obscene attack on our economy.
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