The EPA is about to unleash a huge amount of regulations that would expand their power far beyond what it ever has.
This would include giving them power over water on private property.
“The EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States, including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”
Happy holidays from the Obama administration. Federal agencies are currently working on rolling out hundreds of environmental regulations, including major regulations that would limit emissions from power plants and expand the agency’s authority to bodies of water on private property.
On Tuesday, the White House released its regulatory agenda for the fall of 2013. It lists hundreds of pending energy and environmental regulations being crafting by executive branch agencies, including 134 regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency alone.
The EPA is currently crafting 134 major and minor regulations, according to the White House’s regulatory agenda. Seventy-six of the EPA’s pending regulations originate from the agency’s air and radiation office, including carbon-dioxide-emission limits on power plants.
Carbon-dioxide limits are a key part of President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. The EPA is set to set emissions limits that would effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants unless they use carbon capture and sequestration technology. Next year, the agency will move to limit emissions from existing power plants — which could put more older coal plants out of commission.
“The proposed standards, if finalized, will establish achievable limits of carbon pollution per megawatt hour for all future units, moving the nation towards a cleaner and more efficient energy future,” the agency said in its agenda. “In 2014, EPA intends to propose standards of performance for greenhouse gas emissions from existing and modified power plant sources.”
Hundreds of coal plants that have been closed or slated for early retirement due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations, according to coal industry estimates.
“Already, EPA regulations have contributed to the closure of more than 300 coal units in 33 states,” said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
However, the agency isn’t just working on limiting emissions from coal plants. The EPA is also working on a rule that would expand the definition of “waters of the U.S.” under the Clean Water Act to include water on private property.
Republicans have hammered the EPA’s draft water rule as the largest expansion of agency power in history.
“The EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States, including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”
The EPA’s rule is heavily supported by environmentalists who argue that it’s necessary to protecting water quality. Smaller water sources, they argue, eventually affect larger water sources that people use for recreation or their livelihood.
“It’s taking the way the Clean Water Act works back, so that it works the way water works in the real world,” Bob Wendelgass, president and CEO of Clean Water Action, told Fox News.
These people are a joke if a bunch of illegals was working in them mines it would be different
Where is Obama and the CIA spreading violence today?
One revolution for which the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its allied operatives of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the George Soros Open Society Institute have become so infamous, went virtually unnoticed in the English language Western media. Welcome to Obama’s Ukraine.
In 2010, anti-Russian government provocateurs, financed by Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs), staged a number of protests featuring plastic blue buckets. The buckets were meant to symbolize the portable flashing blue lights, known in Russian as migalki, used atop many vehicles for Russian VIPs, including government officials and private businessmen.
The blue bucket protests were directly linked to the “pro-democracy” activities of USAID in Russia. American-backed provocateurs began placing blue buckets on top of their cars to mock the use of blue lights by officials. In response, three parties represented in the State Duma, United Russia, A Just Russia, and the Liberal Democratic Party, proposed a bill to crack down on the use of the blue buckets by protesters who were intent on causing traffic problems, sometimes resulting in vehicle accidents.
U.S. NGO support for the “blue bucket” revolution preceded by a year the nomination by President Barack Obama of anti-Russian activist Michael McFaul as the U.S. ambassador to Russia. McFaul began his tenure in Moscow by opening up the U.S. embassy to all sorts of anti-Russian political activists, provocateurs, and troublemakers.
These political provocateurs, which include People’s Freedom Party leader political blogger Aleksey Navalny, “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov, chess celebrity Garry Kasparov, Russian “cover girl” Ksenia Sobchak, “Solidarity” co-leader Ilya Yashin, Boris Nemtsov, neo-fascist National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov, Yabloko Party leader Sergey Mitrokhin, and Lev Ponomarev were all well-schooled in the use of various devices and contrivances to gain media attention for their political causes and protests.
Street protests were used by Gene-Sharp-trained activists in a number of CIA- and Soros-advanced political operations.
The United States and the EU created the violence in the Ukraine, supported it, and financed it.
The Sanctions against Russia and the military build up by NATO and the United States are wrong.
Fire Barrack Obama and Joe Biden.
. Shut down the Bureau of Land Management and the IRS.
The delays in the Most Horrible parts of Obamacrap did not fix anything.
Quit spending trillions of dollars on the stupid War on Terror to murder civilians.
End the stupid Sanctions against Russia the violence in the Ukraine is because of the EU and the United States, just like the violence in Syria and the War on Terror and the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.
Why did we accidentally invade Afghanistan when the 911 Terrorists were not from Afghanistan and their Leader was not in Afghanistan? Did it have something to do with the multi billion dollar Drug Industry in Afghanistan and the Largest Drug Cartel in the World, our CIA.
The CIA and NSA are like our Media and Obama, they have no credibility.
The Sanctions against Russia are Wrong. The build up of NATO and United States Military are Wrong.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Obama and they gave us the stupid War on Terror, vote every one of our fat rich good for nothing Senators and Representatives in Washington
Lets get rid of the EPA and the IRS!
http://www.storyleak.com/ukraine-cia-eu-collude-execute-another-color-revolution/
Just waiting !
Shut down the EPA, IRS, and the Bureau of Land Management. The delays in the Most horrible parts of Obamacrap are only good for the worthless good for nothing liars and parasites of the Senate and House in Washington, DC who gave us the stupid War on Terror, Obamacrap, the NDAA, and who have not kept their Oath of Office to protect our Constitution and with it, our Human Rights and Our Freedoms. Fire Barry Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Eric Holder, and every one of Obama’s rich fat cat unamerican appointees. No Incumbents. They have not fired Barrack Obama. Vote them out. Repeal OBamacrap and fire Obama for the good of America and the world. Quit trying to start World War III with China and Russia. End our stupid War on Terror.
Agenda 21
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COMMUNIST RIGHT HERE! FOR WHAT MEANS DOES THIS SERVE??
Fire Barrack Obama. Shut down the stupid War on Terror. End the Sanctions against Russia. The CIA used groups like the National Endowment for Democracy to fund the violence in the Ukraine just as the CIA funded the violence in Syria and the CIA, NSA, and Obama wanted to bomb Syria for the same reason they want War in the Ukraine. To spread the stupid War on Terror from Africa and the Middle East into Asia and probably into Europe. The only thing you can be sure to get from our Media, Obama, and Obama’s Administration is more lies, that is all we have from them since 2008. Americans died and Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton lied. Obama lied about NSA Spying, Obama lied about the NDAA, Obama lied about Obamacare and “You can keep your Plan”, and you can be sure Barrack Obama and our CIA and our NSA lie, now. They have the same credibility Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton have, none.