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#244353 by Badstrat
Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:54 pm
Remember when gore said that climate change deniers should be prosecuted? http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03 ... -punished/
Maybe the left has truly found the solution for all the lies they perpetuate. Not yet, but probably sooner than you believe, the thought police will be putting you in prison and killing you if you don't believe their twisted mind crap.
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EPA Boss Just Threatened Americans: I’m Going To Come Knocking On Your Doors

http://conservativeread.com/epa-boss-ju ... our-doors/

June 14, 2015 By chris Tagged With: climate, coal, compliance, EPA, IER

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy sent a message to those Americans who do not want to get on board with the Obama administration’s environmental agenda.

Speaking at George Washington University’s GreenGov symposium on Wednesday, the federal government’s top environmental enforcer said: “If you are selling to somebody a product, and you can assure them that that product was produced in the most environmentally responsible way, I will guarantee you that they will value that product more highly.”

She took it a step further, adding: “I can guarantee you because if they don’t, I’m going to knock on their door and I’m going to tell them why they are mistaken.”

McCarthy used much of her remarks to discuss the EPA’s new proposed regulations to cut carbon emissions (CO2) under the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The plan calls for a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide by the nation’s power industry by 2030.

“No challenge – no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address on Jan. 20. He believes the primary cause of man-made climate change is CO2 emissions.

The energy sources that will be impacted the most by the proposed new regulations are coal and natural gas. Currently, the United States derives 39 percent of its energy from coal, 27 percent from natural gas, 19 percent from nuclear, 6 percent from hydroelectric, and 7 percent from other renewables (mostly wind power).

The president has stated that his plans for the energy sector will necessarily cause utility rates to “skyrocket” and result in the closure of coal-fired power plants.

A study by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) notes that his administration’s EPA directives for the energy sector actually contradict themselves. On the one hand, the agency’s CPP calls for a reduction in carbon emissions, which impacts coal the most and incentivizes states to switch to natural gas as a lower emitting alternative.

On the other hand, the EPA also plans to reduce ozone levels, which would greatly impact the natural gas industry. “States with counties out of compliance with federal ozone standards will be subject to EPA-mandated pollution controls,” the Daily Caller reports.

The IER study found that areas out of compliance with federal ozone limits sit atop shale oil and gas formations that “represent half of all U.S. natural gas production and are responsible for almost all of recent production growth that is powering America’s domestic energy boom.”

Ozone-Non-compliant

The new ozone regulations mean “it’s going to be tougher and tougher and tougher to produce natural gas, if you can produce it at all,” Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at IER, told the Daily Caller. “And it’s not just gas, it’s oil too.”

McCarthy admitted that the conversion of power plants from coal-fired to natural gas is a pivotal method states will employ to meet the EPA’s new CO2 standards. “Natural gas has been a game changer with our ability to really move forward with pollution reductions that have been very hard to get our arms around for many decades,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Heritage Foundation released a study last fall that found the EPA regulations the Obama administration has announced in order to achieve its climate change goals would reduce the United States’ Gross Domestic Product by $2.5 trillion by 2030. Meanwhile, employment levels would “track nearly 300,000 jobs below the no-carbon-regulation baseline in an average year, with some years seeing an employment deficit of more than 1 million jobs.”

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that a typical U.S. household could lose about $3400 in disposable income per year, with a combined loss for all households of $586 billion by 2030, due to Obama’s new EPA climate change regulations.

The IER report concludes that the “EPA’s regulations impose huge costs for small benefits. The agency’s ozone rule could be the single costliest regulation in U.S. history…Meanwhile, EPA’s CO2 rule will impose double-digit electricity rate hikes for residents of 43 states, but limit global warming by just 0.02 degrees Celsius. The solution is for EPA to withdraw its proposed ozone and CO2 rules.”
#244364 by GuitarMikeB
Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:52 pm
Get some reading skills, too. If you read the quote, it has nothing to do with your 'agenda'. To paraphrase, she said to manufacturers - 'if you deny that Joe CItizen will appreciate your products manufactuered in an environmentally way more, I will come and tell you that you are wrong'.

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