Many states are already fighting this, but, hey, nothing like the Environmental Protection Agency regulating a gas necessary to life
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will issue guidance soon that states and polluters may use to implement the agency’s new greenhouse-gas regulations, Administrator Lisa Jackson said.
The guidelines will ensure that complying with the rules “is practical and is manageable,†Jackson said today at a conference in Washington celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act.
And, yes, the Senate does consider this preemption of the legislative branch
The EPA is using the 1970 law to establish national limits on carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases implicated in climate change. The first phase is set to start Jan. 2. Lawmakers led by Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, want to postpone EPA action, saying the rules will hurt businesses and consumers grappling with a sluggish economy.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said today that he would schedule a vote on Rockefeller’s bill “before we leave here.â€
Rockefeller is “aggressively pursuing†a two-year delay of the greenhouse-gas regulations for industrial sources such as power plants because “the unelected EPA†shouldn’t get ahead of Congress, Jamie Smith, the senator’s communications director, said in an e-mail.
Oh, come on, now, Obama is just trying to heal the planet and get the waters to recede.
We already see the people of California pushing Prop 23, which would suspend the job killing California AGW legislation till unemployment is below 5.5% in the state. And, oh, noes, global warming is killing the tomatoes!
