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Posts Tagged ‘ANPR’

• The Global Warming Thought Police Are Here

  Posted December 1st, 2008 at 1:15pm in Energy and Environment, First Principles with 7 comments

  The Heritage Foundation has long been against allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. So when the EPA unveiled their plan to regulate 1/5 of all food service businesses, 1/3 of all health care businesses, 1/2 of the entire lodging industry, and even 10% of all buildings [...] More

• Don’t Mess with Texas

  Posted November 26th, 2008 at 2:55pm in Energy and Environment with 11 comments

  Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) told the Environmental Protection Agency that its national carbon capping plans were not welcome in the Lone Star State: Implementing such regulations would cripple the Texas’ energy sector, irreparably damaging both the state and national economies, and severely impacting national oil and gas supplies. … Costly regulation that reduces our ability [...] More

• Obama to Force Cap and Trade Around Congress?

  Posted November 24th, 2008 at 1:04pm in Energy and Environment with 3 comments

  According to Carbon Control News, President-elect Barack Obama has named Georgetown law professor Lisa Heinzerling to his Environmental Protection Agency transition team. Heinzerling authored one of the briefs in support of the enviro position in the Massachusetts vs. EPA Supreme Court case. Heinzerling told the Guardian last month: EPA has the authority to regulate sources of [...] More

• Morning Bell: You, Too, Can Help ‘Save’ Millions of Jobs

  Posted November 24th, 2008 at 9:02am in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  In his weekly radio address, President-elect Barack Obama promised a national “Economic Recovery Plan that will mean 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011.” One might think that would mean Obama had promised to create 2.5 million new jobs. But as the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and many other outlets noted, [...] More

• Video: The Economic Costs of the EPA’s ANPR Regulations

  Posted November 20th, 2008 at 10:47am in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  Senior Policy Analyst Dave Kreutzer discusses the economic cost of the proposed regulations of the EPA. You can make a difference. The Heritage Foundation has set up a Web site called StopEPA.com and we are encourageing everyone to visit the site and submit a comment to the EPA to let them know what you think. Time [...] More

• Regulations of Mass Job Destruction

  Posted October 16th, 2008 at 3:33pm in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  Bloomberg is reporting Barack Obama “will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated.” As we have reported repeatedly in the past, such a decision would trigger numerous regulatory actions pursuant to the Clean Air Act and empower the Environmental Protection Agency to centrally plan the entire economy. Since the EPA published its [...] More

• Exaggeration in An Inconvenient Truth? No…

  Posted September 5th, 2008 at 5:00pm in Energy and Environment with 3 comments

  Watching the trailer to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, one would think that this planet is near Armageddon. According to the Nobel Laureate, our planet will soon be done in by ravaging hurricanes, scorching heat waves and twenty-foot sea level increases. Unless we do something about it. Well, one thing we can do is more research. [...] More

• EPA Could Regulate Lawnmowers, Speed Limit

  Posted July 14th, 2008 at 4:54pm in Energy and Environment with 15 comments

  Want to mow your lawn? Better check with the Environmental Protection Agency first. Last Friday the EPA issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) that would impose a number of unthinkable regulations on the economy and everyday life. One of many is regulation the emissions of a lawnmower. This would require the agency to create [...] More