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To: PROLIFE who wrote (683187)11/5/2012 12:06:52 PM
From: PROLIFE  Respond to of 1577586
 
EPA Planning Scorched Earth Assault on Coal

The Examiner ^
| Conn Carroll
Posted on 11/05/2012 6:00:29 AM PST by varmintman

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA. More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion. The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...