Stay tune, your next government shutdown fight is going to be to block EPA new standard… Let’s see how many weak Dems. going to back repubs. shutdown stun …
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It should also be noted that issuing regulations isn’t just things presidents do because that’s what “executing the laws” actually means. Almost every law Congress passes contains an explicit command to an executive agency to develop and issue regulations to accomplish the broad policy objective laid out in the act. For example, the Clean Air Act imposes a general requirement that “new” point source emitters of air pollutants use “Best Available Technology” to mitigate the pollution and then commands the EPA to determine what technology is “best,” what is “available” and what constitutes a “new” point source emitter.
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Rethuglican President gets elected
[/quote] As if that could ever happen!!!
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Is it starting to cool down in here, or is that just me? ; )
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In short, President Obama was taking care that the laws be faithfully executed.
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Ok, maybe renewed calls for de-funding was a more appropriate phrase?
There was a time when conservatives were actually in favor of conservation. Now…
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As long as there’s places to go shoot animals…things have been conserved enough for them.
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Indeed. ‘more jobs’ is simply the posturing for more profit for the oligarchs regardless of the damage done to get it.
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Never forget the 4 clown judges ready to green light pollution.
A GOP president in 2016 would pick other stinko justices for our children.
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Guess the SupremeCorporation K_RATS
Koch ‘advisors’ weren’t around to tell the GangOfFive how to rule.
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See? Just like I always said: Scalia is socialist environmental wacko!
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…and the flaming Cuyahoga river was providing ambience …
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…or maybe the KochChecks hadn’t cleared …
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And that Republican president that sign the subsequent amendments in 1990!
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“…it allows EPA, states and other permitting authorities to continue to require carbon pollution limits in permits…”
And that makes a carbon tax more attractive, considering the slobs of industry could “buy carbon waste” on the open market, and pay up. Responsible companies wouldn’t have to subsidize their out-dated technology.
Republican Congresses always just let this stuff fester – toxic dumps, oil spills, superfund sites, climate change, the banking industry, immigration reform – leaving the same problem at the end of the day, plus a mess to clean up too.
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Meanwhile, anti-environmental right wing pundits attempt to spin the SCOTUS decision as a victory:
“Our cup is 20% full. Yeah!”
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You just described what happened in Australia.
More good points.
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Fossil fuel states’ Democrats aren’t as weak as they are vulnerable.