House Votes to Delay EPA Pollution Regulations for Boilers

[ProSense]

House Votes to Delay EPA Pollution Regulations for Boilers

By Mark Drajem

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The House of Representatives passed legislation to block planned U.S. limits on air pollution from industrial boilers and delay replacement standards.

The House voted 275-142 today for the measure, one in a series of bills Republicans are pushing to curtail Environmental Protection Agency regulations they say are harming the economy.

“We simply believe that this legislation is a common-sense approach to protect jobs, revisit the rules and give industries time to comply,” Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican, said before the vote.

President Barack Obama’s aides have said they would recommend that he veto the bill if it reached his desk.

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The 41 Democrats who voted with Republicans:

Altmire
Baca
Barrow
Bishop (GA)
Boren
Boswell
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Cardoza
Chandler
Clyburn
Costa
Costello
Critz
Cuellar
DeFazio
Donnelly (IN)
Green, Gene
Hanabusa
Hinojosa
Holden
Johnson, E. B.
Kind
Kissell
Larsen (WA)
Lipinski
Matheson
McIntyre
Michaud
Owens
Perlmutter
Peterson
Rahall
Richmond
Ross (AR)
Schrader
Scott, David
Sewell
Shuler
Thompson (MS)
Walz (MN)

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1. Looks like the Democratic Party is determined to become irrelevant.

[ProSense]

2. No other comments? n/t

[Historic NY]

3. already delayed for 10yrs......WTF they want more time it will cost more.

A representative of boiler makers such as Babcock & Wilcox Co. and Cleaver-Brooks Inc. criticized Congress for stepping ahead of the regulators.

“What the House is saying is that my industry doesn’t have the know-how or talent to do the job,” W. Randall Rawson, president of the American Boiler Manufacturers Association in Vienna, Virginia, said in an interview.

After 10 years of delay, new EPA standards would spur sales in the $3 billion to $5 billion-a-year boiler industry, he said.