The EPA Versus the USA
It seems almost beyond reason that a
single U.S. agency could so hate America that it was prepared to
ignore the Constitution, distort a Supreme Court decision, and impose
its will on the nation in the name of totally discredited
science.
That, however, is what the Environmental Protection
Agency is seeking to do while Americans are distracted by the
Christmas celebrations.
The agency’s objective is to
regulate so-called greenhouse gases (GHGs) on January 2, 2011. More
specifically, it would regulate emissions from power plants and other
large emitters, but in reality it would end the role of coal as the
provider of 50% of the electricity Americans require.
It is
essential to understand that the primary GHG is carbon dioxide (CO2)
and it was this gas, naturally produced by the Earth and vital to all
vegetation and life on Earth, that was falsely identified as the
“cause” of “global warming.” Humans individually exhale
some six pounds of CO2 every day.
First, there was no “global
warming”; only the normal and natural warming that had been in
effect since around 1850 when a 500-year “little ice age” ended
in the northern hemisphere.
Second, the Earth is now in a
normal and natural cooling cycle, though with the added concern that
it is also at the end of an 11,500-year interglacial cycle between
the last major ice age and the next.
Third, the data put forth
by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been almost
entirely discredited, based as it was on rigged research by corrupted
university centers and governmental agencies. Some people need to go
to jail, but it is unlikely because the fraud was so vast in its
extent.
On November 22nd, The Wall Street Journal published a
lengthy editorial, “The EPA Permitorium”, noting that “The scale
of the EPA’s current assault is unprecedented, yet it has received
almost no public scrutiny. Since Mr. Obama took office, the agency
has proposed or finalized 29 major regulations and 172 major policy
rules.”
It can be said that, in terms of its original
mission, cleaning the nation’s air and water, that the EPA
succeeded, but like any federal government agency, the EPA has also sought to
constantly expand its powers and has, from its beginning, also seen
as part of its mission the restriction of virtually all
chemicals—invariably called toxic—with a particular emphasis on
pesticides that protect human health and property.
Too much
exposure to any chemical is inherently toxic. The proper use of any
chemical is beneficial.
The reason there is a nationwide
infestation of bed bugs after a half century or more in which this
insect had been virtually eliminated is that the EPA has restricted
the use of almost every pesticide that might exterminate bed bugs.
Now multiply that against EPA restrictions on a host of chemicals
vital to the manufacture of thousands of products.
The effort
of the EPA to regulate CO2 and other GHGs has no basis in
science and none in law. The Clean Air Act does not authorize it.
Moreover, by its own admission, restricting GHGs would only
reduce global temperatures—if that were even possible—by 15
ten-thousandths of a degree Celsius in the next century.
The
EPA has also proposed new rules calling for a reduction in the
national ambient air-quality standard for ground-level ozone, a
precursor of smog, from 75 parts per billion to between 60 and 70
parts per billion, a cut of up to 20%.
To most people that
means nothing, but the reality is that hundreds of U.S. cities and
counties don’t meet the current standard, and compliance would
destroy what is left of an ailing U.S. economy. If you think
unemployment is bad now, it would increase as so-called “emitters”
of GHGs either undertook costly measures to reduce their emissions or
just closed their doors.
Along with those who tried to impose
a Cap-and-Trade Act on the nation in order to limit so-called GHGs
and profit from it by creating a bogus exchange for the sale of
“carbon credits”, the EPA is seeking to exercise a totalitarian
control over every aspect of the provision and use of energy in
America and it is all based on lies.
Congress can put an end
to this nightmare by overturning the EPA’s “Endangerment Rule”
and with it the GHG regulations. A new Congress can and should defund
as much of the EPA as possible.
The use of fossil
fuels -- coal, oil, and natural gas -- accounts for 85% of America’s
energy sources. The EPA proposes to limit or end their use. As such
it is an enemy of the people, and Congress must act to stop this
insane agency before it destroys the nation.
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