EPA Again

[dan_bgblue]

First of all, I want to mention that I am not discussing the merit of the request by the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes. The request by them may be one that should be granted. My complaint is with the action of the EPA. How in the heck did they attain purview over land rights, regardless of whether the land in dispute involved Native Americans or not. There are other departments of the federal government charged with settling disputes that involve Native Americans, and other departments that are supposed to work on federal and private land management issues.

EPA is as close to a totalitarian part of the federal government that I have ever seen.

Linkage (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/12/wyoming-officials-prepare-for-court-fight-against-epa-ruling-that-gave-land-to/?intcmp=latestnews)

[dan_bgblue]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/15/emails-epa-rules-part-progressive-agenda/?intcmp=latestnews


“This is not about climate,” CEI senior fellow Chris Horner told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is the progressive agenda.”

“Our laws don’t always shine to being used as pretenses for ideological agendas; this is plainly in the name of climate, but Obama has said it is to finally make renewables profitable,” Horner added.

Indeed, EPA rules aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions will have little to no impact on global warming since developing countries, like China and India, will continue emitting, thus negating any actions taken in the U.S.

President Barack Obama and the EPA have also sold recent greenhouse gas emission limits on power plants as being necessary to promote green energy and essential for social justice.

[jazyd]

dan, the whole administration is corrupt and they run every dept. Remember when Boeing wanted to open another plant in I think S Carolina and the labor dept stepped and said no because it was a right to work state even though Boeing was not closing down their Washington plant nor reducing jobs. These are people lining their pockets as fast as they can while the muslim is in office and pushing their agenda with a far left radical media helping them along the way.

[dan_bgblue]

How in the world does the EPA get away with defying the OIG. The OIG agents pack guns, have subpoena powers and in general scare the bejesus out of the general public.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/01/epa-staffers-linked-to-alleged-serious-misconduct-agency-reveals/

In the intervening months, OIG has charged that various EPA officials have stonewalled its efforts to investigate the Beale scandal, and that a separate EPA branch for homeland security has illegally prevented OIG interviews of employees and kept other evidence out of the watchdogs’ hands.

The stonewalling also has been mentioned in a special letter signed by 47 of the administration’s 73 inspectors general, spread across a spectrum of government agencies, and complaining about “serious limitations on access to records” that were creating “potentially serious challenges” to “our ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently and in a timely manner.”

[dan_bgblue]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/04/coal-power-plant-closures/

Dean Baker, a D.C.-based economist and the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says shutting down coal plants could be good for not only the environment but also the economy.

Baker told Think Progress that clean alternatives to coal – not just natural gas but wind and solar – are competitive, so switches should come with minimal economic hassle.

Please think back to this action when your utility bills double in the next 3 years, and the utility costs of manufacturing plants force the owners to shut down the plants and ship more jobs to China

[CitizenBBN]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/04/coal-power-plant-closures/

Dean Baker, a D.C.-based economist and the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says shutting down coal plants could be good for not only the environment but also the economy.

Baker told Think Progress that clean alternatives to coal – not just natural gas but wind and solar – are competitive, so switches should come with minimal economic hassle.

Please think back to this action when your utility bills double in the next 3 years, and the utility costs of manufacturing plants force the owners to shut down the plants and ship more jobs to China

did his nose bust out any windows or put out any eyes as it grew?

You have got to be a liar or brain damaged to think that increasing the cost of a primary input in the production and consumption of nearly everything in the entire economy will HELP the economy. Was he not alive during the 1970s for the oil shocks? Can he not do addition?

If they were truly competitive there would be no need to use force to shut down coal plants. They are only competitive once you interfere in the markets to force the cost of coal powered plants high enough to force the shift, which Obama and many others on his side have said publicly many times. They make no bones about what they are doing, making "green" energy "competitive" by force, b/c otherwise they don't have a shot in Hades.

Some things are so laughable I want to put up the double face palm Star Trek image b/c there are no words to address that kind of nonsense.

It shocks me sometimes how dumb a thing can come from a PhD, especially "economists". They are of course just policy hacks who use their degree to hide behind, but the invisible hand of Adam Smith needs to come down and smite some of these fools.