By Peggy VenableSource: link to Washington Times article

The state’s slogan is “Don’t mess with Texas.” But the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing just that, and at stake is whether the Obama administration can impose its global-warming agenda without a vote of Congress.

Obama’s EPA is already well down the path to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, something the act was not designed to do. It has a problem, however, because shoehorning greenhouse gases into that 40-year-old law would force churches, schools, warehouses, commercial kitchens and other sources to obtain costly and time-consuming permits. It would grind the economy to a halt, and the likely backlash would doom the whole scheme.

The EPA, determined to move forward anyway, is attempting to rewrite the Clean Air Act administratively via a “tailoring rule,” which would reduce the number of regulated sources. The problem with that approach? It’s illegal. The EPA has no authority to rewrite the law. To pull it off, the EPA needs every state with a State Implementation Plan to rewrite all of its statutory thresholds as well.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan W. Shaw saw the tailoring rule for what it really is: a massive power grab and centralization of authority. They are fighting back.

Texas leaders are doing what Congress so far has been unable to do (a Senate vote to stop the EPA’s global-warming power grab got just 47 votes on June 10): take on the EPA. Good thing, because Texas would be hit especially hard by these regulations.

For 16 years, the EPA allowed Texas to run its own permitting program to meet federal air-quality standards. But in May, the agency announced- out of nowhere - that the state is not in compliance with federal regulations. Even though Texas had met its clean-air obligations, the EPA announced it was taking over permitting.

Texas is the nation’s energy-production capital, but the air we breathe is cleaner today than it was in 2000, even though the state’s population has grown by nearly 3.5 million people. Between 2000 and 2008, Texas’ nitrogen oxide levels decreased by 46 percent and ozone levels dropped by 22 percent, compared with national reductions of 27 percent and 8 percent, respectively. All major Texas metropolitan areas meet the 1997 federal eight-hour ozone standard, with the exception of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which is within 1 part per billion of meeting the standard.

Comment by American Grand Jury:

This is NOT about “clean air.” This is about the Feds grabbing power and control of energy in this Country. Texas has proven over and over again that they are successful, economically and environmentally. Their success drives the Czars and EPA weenies nuts.

Obama is doing everything in his power to crush States who challenge him — if he can’t legislate them to death he will sue them.

I have a proposal for BO. The Feds can have all the “broke” States like Illinois, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, etc. The conservatives will keep the States like Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, Arizona, Utah and others that want to keep their tax revenue and show Big Brother the door.

Wouldn’t that be sweet?

By Russell Berman

Former Vice President Gore is calling for major rallies to protest congressional inaction on climate change.

In a post on his personal blog headlined “The Movement We Need,” Gore linked to and quoted from an Australian wire service report that “tens of thousands of protesters … have taken to the streets across Australia to urge the major political parties to take action on climate change.”

“Across the world, when politicians fail to take action to solve the climate crisis, people are taking action,” Gore wrote.

He added after excerpting the news report: “It is my hope we see activism like this here in the United States.”

Gore noted he trained activists in Australia to deliver the slideshow that formed the basis for the documentary film that won him an Academy Award. A representative of Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection addressed the rally in Sydney.

Gore has in recent weeks stepped up his criticism of the Senate for its inability to pass a comprehensive energy and climate bill that would put a price on carbon. In a conference call with environmental activists last week, he reportedly said “the United States government in its entirety, largely because of the opposition in the United States Senate to taking action on clean energy and a solution to the climate crisis, has failed us.”

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Just when you thought this snake was in permanent hibernation he slithers out of his hole. God forbid we have to listen to the likes of Al “Climate Control” Gore. Obama and Pelosi are all we can stand right now.

In the article it talks about the documentary that won an Academy Award for Gore — what a rotten piece of work that was — an entire file whose premise was based on now proven fictional data.

The comprehensive energy and climate bill that Gore is talking about is CAP and TRADE. If passed, all trade credits will go through the Chicago Climate Exchange set up by supporters of Obama (Valerie Jarrett) and good ol’ Al Gore. Gore and his pals, including Obama, are expected to pocket Billions upon Billions of dollars. This is all about money folks through government control of energy — it has nothing to do with improving the environment.

What is CCX, the Chicago Climate Exchange, projected to gross 10 Trillion a year if Cap-N-Tax passes. … Valerie Jarrett is still on the board, Obama’s top adviser. … Gore, Goldman, and Cap and Trade - Tangled Web of Corruption …

The liberal retards that buy this crap are especially prone to having their heads up their proverbial butts!

By Erica Werner

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama wants federal workers to cut down on business travel and commuting by car as he seeks to reduce heat-trapping emissions produced by the federal government.

The White House was announcing Tuesday that the government will aim to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from indirect sources like employee driving by 13 percent in 2020, compared with 2008 levels.

Earlier this year Obama directed agencies to reduce pollution from direct sources, such as buildings and government fleets, by 28 percent in the next decade.

The federal government is the largest energy consumer in the U.S. economy, and the combined reductions would be the equivalent of removing emissions from 235 million barrels of oil, the White House said.

Employee travel and commuting account for the biggest category of what the White House calls indirect sources of pollution, so the main way to limit them will be encouraging employees to travel less for business and to use mass transit for their commutes. Other sources of indirect pollution are waste disposal and energy that is lost through inefficient electricity transmission.

The announcement allows Obama to show some forward movement on cutting greenhouse gases even as the Senate prepares to take up energy legislation without the broad, economy-wide greenhouse gas emission caps Obama hoped for.

ABSOLUTE PURE PROPAGANDA
FROM THE USURPER-IN-THIEF

Comment by American Grand Jury:

Obama is the BIGGEST abuser of energy there is. How many times has the government had to haul his sorry ass, his wife’s big butt and the dog around the world or just a few states over to a golfing, hiking or pot-smoking party? Do you realize how many 1,000’s of gallons of fuel, man-power, and hardware it requires to take BO from point A to B. Have you ever seen the photos of the C5A Galaxy that hauls the motorcade around? Then you have to have the fighter jets to protect this Sack O’ Schitt.. it is disgusting. It costs Millions every time he goes on vacation.

NO, the reason Obama is mouthing off right now is he is using this as an excuse to get CAP and TRADE legislation passed.. Cap and Trade will effectively RAPE our economy and put the proceeds in the hands of the socialists, communists, and thieves [Democrats] for decades to come.

One day when I get a chance I will post the “REAL SCAM” that Cap and Trade proposes to enhance Obama and his Chicago thugs money-wise. It is sickening. It is in the hundreds of Billions of dollars.. IT IS PURE THEFT. That is all Obama and his cronies are about.. they want to rob this country blind in the name of CHANGE. Shake Obama down and remove his mask and all you have is a degenerate that is a hustler and a thief.