I’ve been to countries without a version of the EPA and would hate to see this country turned into one of them. I’m sure it would be much better for business if chemical waste could be dumped directly into the sewers to maximize profits but no, thank you I can do without that. Smoke stack soot covering everything is something I can do without. Heavy metals buried out behind the warehouse, um no. The industry regulating themselves? No, we’ve seen how well that works on Wall Street.
Has nothing to do with what the EPA is doing which is trying to shut down fossil fuel production and energy generation. Obama himself said he wanted to bankrupt the coal industry and cause energy prices to sky rocket. When Cap n Trade didn’t pass Congress he said he was going to use the EPA to do it anyways. Now they are going after these industries and through regulation interpretation & using a heavy hand they are way over the top. They are like the ATF of the energy sector. Abuses of power and way over the top interpretations.
Obama was already held in contempt of court once over the drilling in the gulf.
Texas has been suing the EPA. The EPA did a “study”, and then tried to regulate green house gases because they are a threat to public health. All without a law being passed recently. They are using mandates from a long time ago, and all the sudden are trying to shut down major industries that Obama said he wanted to. Convenient huh? They have been after refineries which Texas has a lot of them especially down in Houston…
Texas fired off another salvo in a struggle with Washington over environmental regulation Tuesday, filing a suit in federal court to prevent regulation of greenhouse gases.
Gov. Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott are trying to get the federal Environmental Protection Agency to back away from a finding last year that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. The finding sets the stage for regulation of the gases, which scientists have linked to global warming.
Im very against allowing businesses to dump chemicals and metals into rivers, lakes, and I don’t want smoke stacks all over the place. For the most part we have cleaner air and water than we did 50-100 years ago. The industrial revolution was pretty bad. Rivers used to catch on fire they were so polluted. The EPA was created, and with some low impact laws we have cleaned most of it up. Rivers are pretty clean now, and air quality is better than ever in most places.
However we do have industry, and we do have needs like electricity and gas. Since Obama took over the EPA has been trying to shut them down and regulate them to death (literally for the business). Not just keep them from contaminating things but they want them shut down by reinterpreting things and creating studies that give themselves more power.
Congress really needs to STOP giving these agencies such sweeping power to interpret laws and create regulations (pseudo laws). Thats not how our rule of law is supposed to work. WTF do we vote for and how are we being represented in government if these two bit agenda driven agencies just create their own laws and do whatever the fuck they want? Now states have to drag everyone into court to fight this BS because Congress won’t do it. But Obama doesn’t even care what the courts say…see above how he’s been held in contempt once already for the Gulf Drilling.