China’s Bad Air Puts The Lie To EPA Scare Tactics

Another Obama EPA lie exposed, this time the Washington Times has the honor.

Washington Times writes:

China’s notoriously bad air has recently been especially hard to breathe. It also shows that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) science is especially hard to believe.

It’s so bad even the Communist think polution control is a good idea.

A January temperature inversion over China has caused the air to stagnate and emissions of air pollutants to concentrate, especially over urban areas like Beijing. The air is so bad that it has forced the Chinese government to allow its media to agitate for pollution controls.

The air pollutant receiving the most media attention is fine particulate matter — soot and dust, or “PM2.5″ in EPA-speak.

PM 2.5

U.S. communities are out of daily compliance with EPA regulatory standards if local PM2.5 levels exceed 35 millionths of a gram (micrograms) per cubic meter of air in a 24-hour period. Communities are out of annual compliance with EPA standards if their average daily PM2.5 level exceeds 12 micrograms per cubic meter. This latter standard was just tightened from 15 micrograms per cubic meter in December.

As a practical matter, the average level of PM2.5 in U.S. air is about 10 micrograms per cubic meter, and the EPA standards are hardly ever exceeded in the vast majority of the country. Nonetheless, the agency’s justification for such strict standards is its assertion that PM2.5 kills people — a lot of them.

Outgoing EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson testified about PM2.5 before Congress in September 2011: “Particulate matter causes premature death. It doesn’t make you sick. It is directly causal to you dying sooner than you should.” Mrs. Jackson also testified that PM2.5 kills about 570,000 Americans annually, about 25 percent of all U.S. deaths.

In scientific documents, the EPA has repeatedly concluded that any exposure to PM2.5 can kill, and it can kill people within hours or days of inhalation. The EPA has estimated that every 10 microgram-per-cubic-meter increase in PM2.5 increases daily death rates by about 1 percent. That rate is asserted to be higher for vulnerable subpopulations like the elderly or sick.

What should all this mean for China?

89 times over the EPA limit, and nothing ...

On the worst day so far of the ongoing Chinese air pollution event, Beijing’s PM2.5 levels peaked at 886 micrograms per cubic meter — an incredible 89 times greater than the U.S. daily average. Based on EPA risk estimates, we should expect the daily death toll in Beijing to have skyrocketed by 89 percent on a same-day and next-day basis. Remember that PM2.5 essentially causes “sudden death,” according to the EPA.

So should the death rate in China now have gone up by 89 times, the EPA says so…

How nutty is that … Obama nuts???

November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation

Hey isn’t that cool, they hide it until after the election. And then say you can’t reverse it… I say why not?

The hottest hoax around…

You wonder where the jobs went right here… Hey look at the emails they even show how the hoaxing was done…

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.

The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.

Nope what goes in can just as easily come out.

Fire the entire EPA.

W.Va. Democrats unload on Obama EPA over new layoffs in coal industry

W.Va. Democrats unload on Obama EPA over new layoffs in coal industry

You might want to contemplate if your local power comes from coal; fired generators.

How coal is being run out of business by the Obama EPA. The Clean Watre permits used to be controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers. Just a slight change and bamo the EPA runs the show. But Why…

Can’t get it passed by Congress just do it …

West Virginia Democrats are “outraged” with President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, which has now cost the jobs of nearly 150 coal miners in the state.

Energy giant Consol announced Tuesday that it will idle its surface mining operations in Mingo County after failing to secure necessary Clean Water Act permits from the EPA.

The Miller Creek surface mine facility has been in operation for decades, and the company had planned to construct the new “King Coal Highway” as part of a reclamation project after mining is complete. Coal mine employees, Consol said, would eventually have been assigned to the highway project, once the coal supplies had been exhausted.

Democrats in the state, already angry with the administration’s “war on coal,” unloaded on the EPA on Tuesday afternoon.

“I am incensed and infuriated that the EPA would intentionally delay the needed permit for a public-private project that would bring so many good jobs and valuable infrastructure to communities that so desperately need them,” West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said in a statement.
Mr. Manchin has been one of the loudest critics of Mr. Obama’s environmental policy. He skipped this year’s Democratic convention, and, in one of his campaign commercials, literally shot a hole through the controversial cap-and-trade bill.

“This project is a win-win and the EPA is trying to make it a loser,” he continued.

So reulate coal out of business and your electricity costs will necessarily skyrocket.

What The EPA is Doing To Destroy America

Hey you think we have enough power, just wait until the USA starte=s having brownouts…

More than 34 gigawatts (GW) of electrical generating capacity are now set to retire because of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Rule (colloquially called Utility MACT)[1] and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)[2] regulations. Most of these retirements will come from coal-fired power plants, shuttering over 10 percent of the U.S.’s coal-fired generating capacity.

Fuuny how we didn’t seem to have this problem until we found our Obama… Weird don’t you think… You cannot have new industry siting with a limit on what electric power you can have. It’s just common sense for everyone but our Obamama…

China is bringing online an average of 1 new power plant a week.

This report is an update of a report we issued in October 2011.[3] Last October the original report, we calculated that 28.3 GW of generating capacity would close as a result of EPA’s regulations. At the time, we warned that “this number will grow as plant operators continue to release their EPA compliance plans.” Unfortunately, this statement has proven to be true. This update, a mere eight months later, shows that 34.7 GW of electrical generating capacity will close—a 6.4 GW increase.

According to EPA, their modeling of Utility MACT and CSAPR indicates that these regulations will only shutter 9.5 GW of electricity generation capacity. But events in the real world already show that EPA’s modeling is a gross underestimate.

You see what the EPA is doing? When you regulate things it’s always the meaningless last 1% that costs the most….

That’s nearly 10% of America’s electric power gone, but not until 1013

Just Wait Until Your Electric Bill Skyrockets…

On Friday, the House of Representatives voted 233 to 175 to stop the Obama administration’s so-called “war on coal,” passing a bill that would limit the EPA’s regulatory authority over greenhouse gases and limit the Interior Department’s ability to issue coal mining rules.

“The Obama administration’s ‘all of the above but nothing from below’ energy policy threatens our electricity independence,” wrote Republicans Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan and Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma in an op-ed Thursday.

The vote was largely split along party lines, with 19 Democrats voting with 214 Republicans. Meanwhile, 13 Republicans broke with their party and voted against the bill along with 162 Democrats.

The Stop the War on Coal Act of 2012 is a bundle of provisions which the House has already passed, including one prohibiting the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions and another which is an alternative to EPA rules for coal ash disposal and management.

The bill also restricts the Interior Department from issuing regulations regarding surface mining operations and limits the EPA’s ability to veto permits issued under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, while also promoting the cooperation between the federal government and the states regarding water pollution controls.

“Since taking office, the Obama Administration has waged a multi-front war on coal – on coal jobs, on the small businesses in the mining supply chain, and on the low-cost energy that millions of Americans rely upon,” said Washington Republican Rep. Doc Hastings on the House floor Thursday.

Food or Fuel

The ZOMBIES in the White House.

By definition humans are imperfect. Some are more imperfect than others however. Nature has provided us with a mechanism to reduce the most imperfect among us. That mechanism is sometimes chronicled in something called the Darwin Awards. My favorite Darwin award of all time involved a thrill seeking man who strapped a solid rocket booster to his car in an effort to see how fast he could go. He went quite fast, in excess of 300 miles per hour actually… but, shockingly, the brakes for his car eventually disintegrated and he met his end after crashing into the side of a cliff. Thankfully nature’s lessons do not always end so… drastically, usually the only injuries are a few broken bones, a smaller bank account and maybe some wounded pride.

And that is the beauty of humanity. We often learn from our mistakes. We often learn from our experiences in order to make adjustments or better decisions going forward. Unfortunately, although government is made up of humans, it does not share that same skillset.

The EPA has strapped it on …

There is possibly no better example of this than the debacle that is Uncle Sam’s ethanol obsession. Since the Carter administration the government has been diverting your dollars to put ethanol into your gas tank. Initially it was intended to be a tool to help the United States become energy independent, it then morphed into a tool to help increase gas mileage and later it became a critical element in fighting global warming. Now it doesn’t even do any of those dubious, but theoretically positive, things. It’s simply become another failed government wealth transfer program.

Drilling for US oil, like they do in Alaska and N. Dakota shows how that works.

Why is the Obama drilling moratorium still on the Gulf of Mexico? And not on for Brazil.

Ethanol is an industry that enjoys no natural market. The only reason the ethanol market exists in the first place is because of government mandates. And who are the beneficiaries of this corporate welfare that is funded out of your pocket? Mainly members of the farm / finance / producers cabal in the form of the Renewable Fuels Association.

Corn, Going, Going, Going …

When governments get the big idea that food is endless and market constraints don’t matter.

It’s like the anti-Colonialist saying it’s fine for the West to suffer, they stole it all in the first place. Time to pay back for your sins ….

The worst drought in 50 years has destroyed one-sixth of the U.S. corn crop. The USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WSDE) report, released Friday, projects the smallest corn crop in six years and the lowest corn yields per acre since 1995.

As acreage, production, and yields declined, corn prices spiked. Last week, corn futures hit a record high of $8.29-3/4 per bushel.

And so what are we doing in the USA? The EPA is trying to force refiners to blend E15, instead of E10. Why no one knows.

So using hooch for fuel is good? Why???

Tell me what is the end, using ethanol for fuel. Level headed people discarded ethanol like 100 years ago as too costly. Somebody bend the cost curve over somebody’s head at the EPA.

It’s like the people at the EPA don’t know about drilling for USA oil. Weird.

Hey it would;d be cheaper. Oh so that’s the problem, we want expensive fuel to keep Americans at home, right. So we will blend it for you …

Who Needs Electricity Anymore, That’s So 20th Century

Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012, I hope you don’t need electricity.

What is going on? Did you know?

Look it’s simple, in Obama’s warped mind, we don’t need electricity. They have none in Indonesia, or Kenya for that matter.  Anti-Colonialist Obama, the colonialist must be paid back for their sins. Haven’t you seen the world at night from space maps, The night sky is dark, beautiful, the wood campfire is great, lay on your back, look up at the beauty that an electricity free world can provide.

See if you can see Kenya of Indonesia

How cool will electricity rationing be …. Shut down the USA and other first world country’s. Oh yeah, forget the electricity sucking A/C.

So the EPA wants you to be part of their Gaia worship ceremonies, gather around the wood burning campfire. Because there will be no electricity. Nudge, shove, shoot, How tyranny works.

Here it comes, ready or not. Buy generators now!!! Don’t wait, avoid the rush. Avoid rationing now.

Or hope Mitt Romney shuts this outlaw Obama crap down. You want economy crushing action, this will do it.

Facing stiff federal environmental regulations, coal plant operators are planning to retire 175 coal-fired generators, or 8.5 percent of the total coal-fired capacity in the United States, according to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

EPA Destroys Their Own Anti-Fracking Argument

The EPA destroys their own argument. But hey would you expect truth to stop the EPA?

An article of faith among many current environmentalists is that a particular method of extracting natural gas from the earth — hydraulic fracturing, or fracking – is dangerous.

Here is a question, how does a drilling that goes down thousands of feet, affect groundwater? Did you know most pumps cannot even pump at thou=sands of feet? Yep I had one, and about 300 feet is the limit.

The danger most often cited is groundwater contamination(shallow wells) and the example always given is Dimock, PA where a few years ago a small group of residents claimed their groundwater had become a health hazard due to gas drilling by Cabot Oil & Gas.

Gas drilling is thousands of feet deep, in some cases, tens of thousands of feet deep.

The EPA got into the act by conducting it own sampling study of private drinking water.

The results were released today and could not be more clear: There was no groundwater poisoning. Fracking, as a drilling practice has been around 60 years, or more.

EPA Approves Town’s Water After Fracking Fear

“Based on the outcome of [its] sampling, EPA has determined that there are not levels of contaminants present that would require additional action by the Agency,” the EPA press release says.

As AEI’s Kenneth Green correctly notes this should put an end to the anti-fracking hysteria .

“In a sane world, this should end the crusade against hydraulic fracturing, and end the federal government’s pursuit of regulatory oversight of fracking as well.”

The Economic Destruction Of The EPA: New Fuel Rules Could Bump Ocean Freight Rates By 8%

I wonder, do Chinese freighters have to abide by these new “fuels for dummies” rules? Or do they just burn old sulfur fuel like always? Lucky for us, the world doesn’t listen to the dumbasses at the EPA.

First I want to bring your attention to who publishes this. It’s not the New York Times, nope we get this from the Alaskan Journal of Commerce, who tells us … New fuel rules could bump freight rates by 8%. You woulkd think knowing that this “new rulke” from the EPA will raise freight costs across the board by 8% would be something imnportant that they would want people to know about. You know, all the news that’s fit to hide.

Well apparently not … Read here:

New low-sulfur fuel standards for marine ocean carriers go into effect Aug. 1, and the near-term result is likely to be a 20 percent to 25 percent hike in fuel costs for a special blended diesel carriers will have to use.

The switch in fuels is required to meet a 1 percent sulfur limit set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, several shipping companies have said.

EPA drops the other shoe in 2015, when the sulfur standard is lowered to 0.1 percent.

One vessel operator, Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc., or TOTE, estimates that a 25 percent increase in fuel costs to meet the EPA standard effective in August will translate to about an 8 percent increase in shipping rates, according to its president, John Parrott. TOTE operates general cargo vessels from the Port of Tacoma to Anchorage.

Horizon Lines Alaska LLC, which also operates general cargo vessels on the same route, has not yet releases its estimates of increased costs.

Both TOTE and Horizon Lines said no significant engine modifications will be needed to use the fuel blend, however.

I wonder why this doesn’t get wider circulation? Hmmm oh yeah, that’s right, it would hurt Obama if people figured out why stuff and “thing a ma-jigs” cost more.

Who knew …

I bet you still wonder why no o0ne builds a factory in the USA anymore …… Spread it far and wide, put the lamestream out of business.