Posted by
Billy on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:46:25 AM
After failing to get climate-change legislation through Congress, the Obama
administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through other
means, and Republicans are ready to put up a fight.
On
Jan. 2, new carbon emissions limits will be put forward as the Environmental
Protection Agency prepares regulations that would force companies to get permits
to release greenhouse gases under the Clean
Air Act.
Critics say the new rules
are a backdoor effort to enact the president's agenda on global warming without
the support of Congress, and would hurt the economy and put jobs in jeopardy by
forcing companies to pay for expensive new equipment.
"They are job killers.
Regulations, period -- any kind of regulation is a weight on economy. It
requires people to comply with the law, which takes work hours and time, which
reduces the profitability of firms. Therefore, they grow more slowly and you
create less jobs," said environmental scientist Ken Green of the conservative
American Enterprise Institute. (White
House Plans to Push 'Global Warming' Policy, GOP Vows Fight... )
(Billy's Thoughts>>>> American faces a lot of problems yet this White House wants to push this on the American people. It also shows that Obama doesn't want to listen to the message the voters sent in last election instead of trying to cut taxes he wants to handle this.)