What does he care if this causes you, the peasant, to suffer?
(Bloomberg) Representatives of coal-intensive utilities and coal-producing regions said that President Barack Obama would effectively outlaw construction of new power plants using the fuel with pending environmental rules.
The Environmental Protection Agency is revising proposed rules from last year in response to opposition by utilities and mining companies. The new version, under review by White House officials and scheduled for release next week, will be structured differently though it offers little solace to the industry, according to people who have been briefed on the measure and asked not to be identified before its release. (snip)
To deal with the (non-existent) threat (of globull warming), Obama directed the EPA to cap carbon dioxide from power plants, which account for 40 percent of U.S. emissions. The first step is to issue rules for new plants, a proposal set to be released next week. The more contentious rules would govern emissions from existing plants, and those aren’t scheduled to be issued until next year. The rules will be the first of their kind.
Hmm, did Congress, the lawmaking portion of the federal government, give the EPA/Executive Branch the power to decide this? Sadly, they probably did. Not that Obama and his peeps would give a damn, because Republicans won’t stand up en masse to stop him.
