Update on EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

Progressives "breaking windows" and
dragging down our economy and
reducing American's standard of living.

One year ago tomorrow, ARRA News addressed the EPA's effort to gut energy sources: "EPA will shut down these plants by imposing a ground-level ozone rule (the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). It is estimated that the cost of this rule will amount to $130 billion."

Dr. Bill Smith, ARRA News Service, said at that time:

"Many people, especially in rural America, are about to experience a rude awakening with serious reduced access to energy. Why? Because as Frank York discusses below, under President Barack Obama, "the EPA is going to gut the coal industry by shutting down 20% of the plants by 2012." . . . "How many blackouts or brownouts will occur because of EPA’s over regulation? How many jobs will be lost? How many families will be destroyed? These are the unseen consequences of shutting down coal plants." And the liberal / socialists in control of the Obama administration and the EPA, do not care. There goal is to "break as many windows as possible."

Fortunately, the EPA rule was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. And, noted on August 25, 2012 in an update to the previous referenced article:

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [pdf copy] rejected an EPA rule known as the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). The rule was supposed to have gone into effect at the beginning of 2012, but the same court had previously stayed its implementation on procedural grounds. Last week’s ruling is the first to address CSAPR on its merits.

CSAPR governed emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) from Midwestern coal-fired power plants, many of them Electric Cooperatives, and other sources. SO2, along with oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and others is a precursor of acid rain, which causes widespread environmental damage not only in the states where the sources are located, but also those downwind.

Today, ARRA News received a response to last month's court's decision permanently rejected an EPA rule known as the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)which shutdown many Electrical Cooperatives.  It was via an email from Mel Coleman, CEO, North Arkansas Electric Cooperative:

"This is good news for North Arkansas Electric Cooperative members because the proposed rule was expensive, impractical and ignored just how far we’ve come in reducing power plant emissions. In fact, cooperatives across the country have reduced emissions by about two-thirds since the Clean Air Act was amended in 1990 and we are committed to developing the most cost-effective ways to build on that progress while keeping your electric bill as affordable as possible.

"So, while we support common-sense, balanced environmental policies that protect health and the environment and maintain affordable and reliable electric service; we believe that this specific proposal by the EPA was neither balanced nor equitable.

"While I welcome the Court’s ruling, I believe that it only underscores the need for a more coherent federal environmental policy."

Frank York at EPAAbuse.com concluded his article that begin this discussion a year ago today:

"If Lisa Jackson and President Obama’s real goal is to turn America into a Third World nation, they’re doing an excellent job so far. Imagine what four more years of Obama in the White House and Jackson at the EPA will mean for us. Get your survival food, propane tanks, and water purifiers ready. Obama and Jackson are breaking as many windows as they can."

Regardless of the court's decision stopping the implementation of the EPA's CSAPR, York's comment remains relevant today. It is most unfortunate, that the Obama administration has placed radial liberals, progressives, in the varied agencies whose efforts appear to be the destruction of both our economy and the standard of living and the comfort of Americans.

Americans have the opportunity to take back their country from the progressives at the polls on November 6th. The evidence is clear, we do not need another four more years of radical Obama minions carrying out the distorted Obama agenda behind closed doors and through department regulations. Time to stop Progressives "breaking windows" and dragging down our economy and reducing American's standard of living.

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