Sen. Jim Inhofe warns of looming EPA cap-and-trade regulations.
Greenwire reports:
“We defeated cap and trade,” [Sen. Inhofe] said. “It’s not going to happen.”
But Inhofe said he failed to anticipate the Obama administration’s next move: “They are going to try to do it through regulations.”
Inhofe criticized U.S. EPA’s so-called endangerment finding that says greenhouse gases are harmful to human health and therefore can be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
The finding, as well as other climate change science, Inhofe said, was widely discredited in the “Climategate” scandal, which involved the theft of emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.
Environmentalists, Democrats and public health advocates have strongly pushed back on the notion that man-made climate change is only a “theory,” as many Republicans have suggested.
An animated Inhofe lambasted EPA regulations, including new air pollution rules for industrial boilers and incinerators, as well as air rules limiting mercury and other air toxic emissions from power plants.
The “overregulation that is taking place right now,” he said, “is probably worse” than anything else the administration is doing.
The “crown jewel” of the regulatory effort, he said, is new air pollution rules EPA is considering for greenhouse gases from power plants.
The agency is drafting Clean Air Act standards for power plant greenhouse gas emissions under the terms of a settlement with environmentalists. EPA sent the proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget in November, but OMB has yet to release it.
EPA was supposed to finalize the rule last May, but it has been repeatedly delayed. The agency has said it expects to release the rule this month (E&E Daily, Jan. 31).
Inhofe said the rule could cost as must as $300 billion to $400 billion per year.
Climategate: was Russian secret service behind email hacking plot?
There was growing speculation on Sunday that hackers working for the Russian secret service were responsible for the theft of controversial emails in the ‘Climategate’ scandal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6746370/Climategate-was-Russian-secret-service-behind-email-hacking-plot.html
I fear it is coming to this.
I do not see this Congress reversing their own statutes.
Neither do I see the courts reversing the ridiculous Endangerment Finding.
Man-made-climate warming is not even a scientific theory. An educated guess is a hypothesis. It has to have evidence to be elevated to the position of Scientific Theory.
Greenwire continues to spread the lie that the East Anglia emails were stolen. They weren’t. They were released by an inside whistleblower.
If congress can’t stop this hoax used to perpetrate the Al Gore scam, then there is no hope to make Obama a one term President!. Fact: Every core industry that fled the USA for more polluting countries was forced to do so by EPA extreme regulations.
The over educated congress lacks commonsense. Ask yourself why the glacier melted when there were no SUV’s or man on earth? Ask why when Mt. Pinatubo injected millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere causing 4% less sunlight which caused the temperature to fall. See Al Gores temperature chart. The cooling lasted 3 years until the sulfuric acid aerosols dissipated. It is the “sun” stupid!!! Earth by comparison to the sun is like a pimple on an elephant. Man can not control the sun. Congress is afraid to confront MMGW opponents.
I agree with Pyeatte
Let the EPA have its way, and when the economy collapses, you will see a French Revolution style revolt.