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E.P.A. Delays Tougher Rules on Emissions
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The Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations — new rules governing smog and toxic emissions from industrial boilers — as it adjusts to a changed political dynamic in Washington with a more muscular Republican opposition.

The move to delay the rules, announced this week by the Environmental Protection Agency, will leave in place policies set by President George W. Bush. President Obama ran for office promising tougher standards, and the new rules were set to take effect over the next several weeks.

Now, the agency says, it needs until July 2011 to further analyze scientific and health studies of the smog rules and until April 2012 on the boiler regulation. Mr. Obama, having just cut a painful deal with Republicans intended to stimulate the economy, can ill afford to be seen as simultaneously throttling the fragile recovery by imposing a sheaf of expensive new environmental regulations that critics say will cost jobs.

The delays represent a marked departure from the first two years of the Obama presidency, when the E.P.A. moved quickly to reverse one Bush environmental policy after another. Administration officials now face the question of whether in their zeal to undo the Bush agenda they reached too far and provoked an unmanageable political backlash.



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Re: E.P.A. Delays Tougher Rules on Emissions (Could it be Obama is waking up?)
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 09:14:42 AM »
Weak.  Obama needs to set in stone emissions caps today not tomorrow.  Clean air for all, and pay for what you do to the earth.  Simple, effective policies that leave this world better off.
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Re: E.P.A. Delays Tougher Rules on Emissions (Could it be Obama is waking up?)
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 09:15:31 AM »
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Let China ad Russia and India go first.   

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Re: E.P.A. Delays Tougher Rules on Emissions (Could it be Obama is waking up?)
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2010, 10:05:46 AM »
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Let China ad Russia and India go first.   

It's called a trade tariff. You don't cap emissions?  You pay X amount to import your product into our markets.   
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Re: E.P.A. Delays Tougher Rules on Emissions (Could it be Obama is waking up?)
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2010, 01:37:56 PM »