If you don’t believe that Obama and his administration’s over-reach on so-called climate change costs America jobs, then how to explain even Labor bailing on Obama and the Democrats?
Unable to pay off the Environmental lobby through legislation, Obama’s EPA is looking for every opportunity to end-run Congress by enacting stringent and un-neccesary new regulations.
WASHINGTON–The Obama administration’s environmental agenda, long a target of American business, is beginning to take fire from some of the Democratic Party’s most reliable supporters: Labor unions.
And it isn’t only Labor. The American people as a whole have turned cold to the notion of climate change. Unfortunately, just as we saw with the passage of ObamaCare, this administration isn’t going to allow democracy in the form of the American people to get in the way of their kowtowing to special interest groups, be it the health care lobby, or the far-Left environmental movement in this case.
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, a poll released Monday showed.
This has resulted in a House panel acting today to begin to tell the EPA, no way!! Unfortunately, the battle isn’t over and we’ll need to be especially mindful of how the Senate may eventually behave.
By a vote of 34 to 19, House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill Tuesday that would strip the E.P.A. of its authority under the Clean Air Act to limit the emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from power plants, oil refineries and other sources. All Republicans voted in favor, along with three Democrats: Reps. John Barrow of Georgia, Jim Matheson of Utah and Mike Ross of Arkansas. The vote follows a subcommittee’s approval last week.
Reuters props up a Lisa Song, from a group called SolveClimate, to highlight just some of what the EPA has been planning. Many of these admissions have already been reduced over the years. But an Obama administration decidedly un-friendly to American business and domestic energy production doesn’t intend to let something as inconvenient as democray get in the way of growing government and continuing to over-reach and intrude into the private sector in ways that cost Americans jobs. That’s a recipe for disaster, most especially given our struggling economy and job market. I imagine the more people they can un-employ and put on the public dole, the more admirers and ultimately voters Obama and Democrats believe they will have when time comes for Americans to go to the polls in 2012.
This week the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release new standards for coal- and oil-fired power plants that will limit the emissions of 84 different “air toxics,” including mercury, benzene, hydrogen chloride and radioactive material.
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