EPA to propose repealing Obama-era rule on greenhouse gas emissions

[riversedge]

Source: CNN




Updated 7:22 PM ET, Sat October 7, 2017

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"Under the interpretation proposed in this notice, the CPP exceeds the EPA's statutory authority and would be repealed," the proposal reads. "The EPA welcomes comment on the legal interpretation addressed in this proposed rulemaking."

........................Obama's EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, called the proposal "just plain backwards."

"A proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan without any time line or even a commitment to propose a rule to reduce carbon pollution, isn't a step forward, it's a wholesale retreat from EPA's legal, scientific and moral obligation to address the threats of climate change," McCarthy said in a statement Friday.


She added, "The Supreme Court has concluded multiple times that EPA is obligated by law to move forward with action to regulate greenhouse gases, but this administration has no intention of following the law. They are denying it just as they are denying the science. They're using stall tactics to defer action, ignoring the courts and the demands of the American people."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/07/politics/clean-power-plan-repeal-proposal/index.html?adkey=bn

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The idiot is really going to do this. damn!

[NickB79]

1. This more than anything will doom millions to death

By mid-century, most industrialized nations on Earth will be collapsing as climate-change-driven calamities, food shortages, and resource wars bankrupt them. By the end of this century, civilization as we know it will be clinging on in fortified strongholds, while the rest of the world is ruled by anarchy and warlords.

All because we neglected our duty to future generations to leave them a liveable world.

[Metro135]

2. This is the Environmental PROTECTION Agency?

They should change their name to the PPA

Plutocrat Protection Agency.

[nwduke]

3. MAPA-EPA

Make America Polluted Again, from the Environmental Pollution Agency. I weep for our country with the now confirmed MORON!

[democratisphere]

4. Just one more drumpfian moronic decision.

[PdxSean]

5. Trump lacks the brainpower to have come up with this.

Yes, he will sign where he's told to sign, but I'd put this action squarely on the industry-bribed republicans in congress.

[sakabatou]

6. Why not just rivers run with chemicals until they catch fire?!

[logosoco]

7. People like tRump and Pruitt have lived in such a bubble they can't even see

that polluting the air and water will not protect them. They use the "jobs" excuse, but that is flimsy. If you are sick because of what's in the water and air, you aren't going to be able to go to work anyway.

(I would really love to see actual science on what exact jobs would be lost to protect the planet. It seems to me having to adhere to regulations/protections creates jobs. They are just trying to protect industries that would have to pay to make adjustments and that may affect their profits, but they will never put the planet before their profits).

[Bengus81]

8. More pollution and no health care,this IS Trumps World...........

Jesus H. Christ,we need BIG wins in 2018 to stop this thug.

[briv1016]

9. C-EPA, Corporate Environment Protection Agency.

Objectively looking at humanity right now, what the hell are we trying to save? Humans deserve to go extinct.