One of the things about a new law (as opposed to a new EPA regulation) is that it erases some of the likelihood of lawsuits on day one.
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Pollutants subject to EPA regulation are explicitly listed in legislation.
But the electric industry has only three years to comply under one EPA regulation known as the utility rule that is meant to target mercury and is due to be finalized soon, while many other destructive rules are in the works.
The company also said Monday that while the cuts required are more than the initial agreement, it was planning to do them to meet a new EPA regulation aimed at reducing mercury and other air toxics from the nation's power plants.
Disband the EPA. Repeal every rule and regulation EPA has issued and the USA will lead the world in energy production.
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In September, the agency formally proposed that pollution from motors vehicles come under the EPA's regulation.
The industry is also pushing the EPA to use regulation to raise costs on carbon sources of power.
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The approach to regulation taken by EPA and USDA makes no sense.
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It's time to replace those ideological Clean Air Act filters, get the EPA out of the climate regulation nonsense, and clear the atmosphere of corrupt Enron-legacy "green energy" and carbon-trading agendas once and for all.
George Voinovich (R-Ohio) disclosed that he is inking an amendment for the Senate bill that would preempt states and the EPA, eliminating confusing layers of regulation.
In all cases, the argument against regulation goes something like this: The last thing a down economy needs is new regulation, and the EPA is overstepping its boundaries.
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The EPA's flawed approaches to biotechnology regulation, which date from the 1980s, are ancient history, but there is a modern-day angle.
Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amended an obscure clean water regulation that restricted use of aluminum in automobiles because of a potentially harmful byproduct created in the manufacturing process.
The adoption of scientifically sound, risk-based regulation of biotechnology by USDA and EPA could transform the current trickle of commercial products into a torrent.
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It also eliminates EPA foot dragging on air permits necessary for offshore drilling, and removes EPA authority for unnecessary and burdensome greenhouse gas regulation altogether.
The EPA is effectively imposing cap and trade by administrative regulation under the Clean Air Act, without Congressional approval.
Adoption of scientifically sound and risk-based regulation of biotechnology by the USDA and EPA, which would require rule making but not legislation, could transform the trickle of commercial products into a torrent.
But he's trying to take credit for something he had nothing to do with, given that this surge is taking place on private property and the EPA is searching for an excuse to supplant state regulation and slow down drilling.
We're not just going to reduce regulation, we're going to cripple EPA. And people aren't buying that.
The EPA, under President Barack Obama, has stepped up regulation of natural gas drilling, which has been booming thanks to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Hence the regulation will impose negligible costs and, as the EPA itself confesses, negligible benefits.
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This is a risible choice, because while a senior EPA official in the Clinton administration, Goldman never met a regulation she didn't like and oversaw extremely radical, unscientific decision- and policy-making, especially toward chemicals and biotechnology.
In 2008 the EPA issued the cross-state air pollution rule to revise a 2005 regulation that had also been challenged in court.
Incredibly, the EPA regulates such plants as pesticides and subjects them to even more stringent regulation than the deadly chemical poisons used to kill vermin, viruses or bacteria.
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The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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The EPA has no desire to regulate the little guys, so in September it proposed to tailor its regulation of the greenhouse gases to affect only the biggest polluters.
More recently, the EPA has proposed the use of public-opinion surveys with hypothetical scenarios that boost the alleged benefits of its proposed regulation by nearly 14, 000%.
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