Often the EPA oversteps its statutory authority so blatantly that federal judges frequently overrule EPA actions.
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The EPA and automakers argue the EPA is charged only with regulating poisonous stuff.
Yet the EPA nor anyone else questioned the 92 page scathing opinion given against EPA in the suit.
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Disband the EPA. Repeal every rule and regulation EPA has issued and the USA will lead the world in energy production.
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It also eliminates EPA foot dragging on air permits necessary for offshore drilling, and removes EPA authority for unnecessary and burdensome greenhouse gas regulation altogether.
Ms. PATTON: In both cases, under the final rule, the reductions that EPA is going to recommend for those facilities will be half of what EPA proposed.
As the EPA itself admits, however, EPA regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions will impose much higher costs on the U.S. economy than congressional legislation accomplishing the same purpose.
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The EPA is arguing three issues: That Congress never wanted greenhouse gases regulated by the EPA, so the agency would be overstepping its authority to try to regulate them.
The primary reason environmental groups claimed the EPA was underestimating the costs of carbon emissions is that the EPA refused to adopt a discount rate as low as Stern.
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"This consent decree offers the fastest and most certain path available to EPA to stop the discharge of coal ash from the Badger into Lake Michigan, " said Susan Hedman, EPA regional administrator.
Lisa Jackson, who heads the EPA, has issued environmental-justice guidelines to the agency's offices, and Gwen Keyes Fleming, administrator for the EPA in the south-east, recently met Mr Bullard and other environmental-justice advocates.
The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat.
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First of all, this was a process started not under this EPA but under a previous EPA, based on a Supreme Court decision handed down in 2007 that required the EPA to look into this.
Virtually all disposal of wastewater is regulated by the EPA, either under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Clean Water Act, but the EPA may delegate actual enforcement of these regulations to the states.
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This mandate came from a lawsuit brought against the EPA by the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1992 that accused the EPA of taking too long to list coal-fired power plants as sources of mercury.
Under both pending approaches, EPA would leave in place an exemption that allows for the beneficial recycling of coal ash a huge business that alleviates already stressed landfills and a process that EPA says will keep the public safe.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, Train and other past Republican and Democratic EPA administrators note that once the EPA ordered a phase-out of lead additives in gasoline, change resulted: Lead levels in peoples' blood and the attendant harms dropped precipitously.
The Obama Administration, including the EPA itself, legislators from both parties, and scores of business leaders like Exelon Chief Executive John Rowe all prefer that Congress pass a bill that regulates carbon dioxide to the EPA jerry-rigging the Clean Air Act to do so.
This is precisely why I long ago concluded that all the talking heads on TV and radio who so vehemently object to these EPA ordered air pollution measures must be required to live with their families within two miles of a fracking operation exempted from EPA requirements.
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Almost five months ago, his EPA issued its long-awaited regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, regulations that were required by law once the EPA deemed those gases a pollutant as defined by the Clean Air Act (a finding that was, in fact, made on December 15, 2009).
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When the EPA finally alerted the refiners that they were holding bogus permits, they gave them only 14 days to find replacements a virtually impossible task, and yet EPA then lowered the boom and chose to fine the refiners who were the victims, not the perpetrators, of the scam.
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The fuel economy mileage that appears on window stickers of new vehicles is calculated through a test that puts a vehicle through a standardized drive cycle designed by the EPA. The EPA then relies on auto manufacturers to conduct the test, and certifies that the vehicles have been tested.
And while the Energy Policy Act of 2005 prevents the EPA from explicitly regulating fracking wells under the Safe Drinking Water Act, both the EPA and the Ground Water Protection Council, a nonprofit made up of state regulatory agencies, have published studies determining that no documented evidence of fracking-sourced groundwater pollution has been found.
We ranked the list's vehicles based on what it costs to fuel them per year, according to the EPA. We measured cars by fueling cost because the EPA lists two gas-mileage figures per car, city and highway mileage, and we did not want to make an arbitrary decision about which mileage figure is more important.
For starters, he asked his Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join with AGs of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA on August 10, 2012, asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.
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The EPA, already noted as a regulatory funhouse, has 318 rules in the Agenda pipeline.
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In other words, by regulatory fiat, the EPA is flirting with shutting down coal-fired plants completely.
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Funding for the EPA continues its downward spiral ( reduced 13% from 2010 for 2012).
In a 2010 letter to the EPA, ExxonMobil Chemicals Vice President Elissa P.
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