Chamber asks EPA to please reconsider

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the EPA to reconsider its endangerment finding, the legal underpinning of the agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.

Steven Law, chief legal officer and general counsel of the Chamber, released a statement that said the business lobby believes the “right way” to lower greenhouse gas emissions is through "bipartisan legislation and comprehensive international agreements.”

“The EPA has admitted that such an unprecedented regulatory expansion would ‘paralyze’ and ‘overwhelm’ permitting authorities, leaving businesses waiting months or even years to get the permits they need to keep operating. This admission by the EPA undermines the basis for the endangerment finding, and justifies reopening the process,” the Chamber said in a statement.

It appears the strategy ignores the EPA’s effort to “tailor” its regulation to large emitters by raising the threshold for regulation to 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said the threshold could be significantly higher -- perhaps 100,000 metric tons -- during the initial phase of the program in response to complaints from Captiol Hill and also public comments submitted to the agency.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/86879-chamber-asks-epa-to-please-reconsider

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The Chamber is trying to kill Health Care Reform, Financial Reform, and now climate change regulation.

[SoapBox]

1. Empowered by the SCOTUS...

...just remember, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is as evil as Freedom Works, The Heritage Foundation, etc. etc. etc.

Big money...big power...big control. That is all they care about. Period.

[Newsjock]

2. Newsjock asks Chamber to please STFU

Really, ask your local chamber of commerce whether they belong to the U.S. Chamber, and if so, do they support its actions.

[FrenchieCat]

3. I'm getting tired of the Chamber of Commerce!

Really, I am.

[Old Codger]

4. The chamber of corporations

sucks big time... anyone that thinks they give a FF about anything or anyone but big business is deluded.

[azul]

5. When a human activity and industry clearly changes the enviornment,

and kills off species, we eventually figure it out and make that activity illegal, for the safety of humans and all life on earth, and maybe out of respect for life's creator.

Conservatives, who are generally mortally afraid of change, even get it, deep down somewhere.

Criminalization of burning fossil fuels is the step that we are required take if we don't want to see major changes to life as we know it.

We need alternatives, like yesterday. Not these swinish money-thugs trying to kill us all for a damn dollar.

Unfortunately, the USCOC has the money and the media and the maniacs to push our buttons and make us do ourselves harm.

[Go2Peace]

6. The Chamber is sure feeling mighty powerful these days

[defendandprotect]

7. Chamber of Commerce is corporatism and a danger to democracy . . .!!!

Unregulated capitalism is merely organized crime --

Which Obama and Dems well know!!

[rasputin1952]

8. Any time I see "bipartisanship", and especially from a RW org...

I know it is just as code for "kill it".

R's are as far from "bipartisanship" as it gets...x(

[groundloop]

9. Same old song and dance - fear mongering about jobs and the economic impact

That's the only tune that large corporations know. They can't have an intelligent conversation about environmental impact, effects of pollution on humans and other species, nothing but their constant lies about economic impact.

[Ian David]

10. The Chamber of Commerce can suck it. n/t