And it starts - the EPAs new ruling
From
Yahoo News/Associated Press:
EPA to tighten standards for soot pollution
In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration on Friday imposed a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources of pollution.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said the new standard will save thousands of lives each year and reduce the burden of illness in communities across the country, as people "benefit from the simple fact of being able to breathe cleaner air."
Excuse me but bullshit. I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA back when the steel mills were running full blast, when white-collar workers had to bring a second shirt into work and change them at lunchtime. That level of soot was damaging. What we have now is one millionth of what that was and this new regulation is a case of diminishing returns. The effort to clean up is done. It is over. The air is clean. We do not need to micromanage this any more -- it is time to move on to something that is actually important.
This sort of action would never ever pass through Congress as a statute so Obama has to push it through the EPA.
Say hello to higher costs of vehicles, say goodbye to fireplaces in new construction (got mine roaring right now -- it's cold outside!).
Makes me wonder just how many more 'rulings' like this are in the pipeline.
The stupidity -- it burns...
Posted by DaveH at December 17, 2012 6:11 PM