Monday, February 22, 2010

In Passing

 In Passing
Bad Eggs

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EPA's attempted power grab
Since the climate legislation power grab stalled in Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to circumvent the legislative process and pass rules to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.

CPAC's Odd Ending
Ron Paul out-polled Sarah Palin almost 5 to 1 and keynoter Glenn Beck got huge ovations as he disavowed any conservative ascendency within the Republican Party.  Where is the momentum from the Marco Rubio speech and the Dick Cheney "Obama is a one term President" moment?

The Fat Lady Has Sung
Mr. Thomas L. Friedman discovers that Tracy CA. residents must pay for 911 calls because Obama is misunderstood, and the Republicans are as irresponsible as they've ever been, which is was, way - and won't sanction massive tax increases which, as everyone knows, is what pulls an economy out of recession.  You Bastids!
When the force of your personality fails to produce ...

Obama Giving Black Farmers $1.25B in Reparations
Well, so much for that issue.  Dictators make scrambling eggs look so easy.

Obama to Endorse Rules to Limit Health-Insurance Rate Increases
OMG! He has all the answers to everything now! 
Boned Jello
Former cold war agent gagged by the CIA
HE remembers the women sunbathing naked on the deck of a passing yacht. 
I don't have to tell you more. This link is going viral baby!

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2/22/2010 06:24:00 AM 3 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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Grumpyunk said...

Mr Peabodys Coal company has gone on the offensive against the EPA recently.
http://tinyurl.com/yguyo9k

This is a good thing.

2/22/10, 12:03 PM
badfrog101 said...

Peabody v.s. the EPA? Something about when you have two problems, point them at each other. You might end up with only one weakened problem.

2/22/10, 4:21 PM
Timbeaux said...

It's worse than what this reporter can get his mind around with the EPA. I write PSD permit applications for a living, for refineries, chem plants, steel mills. I've never written one for less than $35k, and I'm working on two right now one with a budget of $181k, and the other is essentially open checkbook ($2.7 million billed to date over more than 2 years....for a permit).

The PSD rules are for stationary sources (plants, mills, etc.). PSD comes into force for new pollutants (e.g. CO2) whenever a new regulation in any progam is written which places limits on that pollutant, even if it is unrelated to stationary sources. EPA is poised to promulgate the light duty vehicle standards between now and this summer, which will bring PSD into force, at least under the current judicial interpretation.

And the hole gets deeper. The EPA wants PSD to apply jsut to sources with 25,000 tons per year (tpy) of CO2 emissions or more (the "Tailoring Rule"), which is a cutoff that mostly keeps just industrial sources. The problem is that the CAA states PSD applies to pollutants with emissions of 250 tpy. This makes sense for carbon monoxide, but not for carbon dioxide. Every middle school with a radiator boiler will have to apply for a PSD permit. Even if EPA somehow streamlined the permitting process (doubtful), I don't see them getting the cost below $10,000 per permit application for the most basic situations. Plus the public notice, public comment period, and public hearing required by the Act...

EPA can't override the Act, so their attempt to "tailor" the law to the regulation they want won't last 5 minutes in court when Sierra Club sues to make the rule as strict as possible.

2/22/10, 9:24 PM

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