"The most expensive regulation ever’"

[applegrove]

‘The most expensive regulation ever’

By Erica Martinson

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/epa-ozone-standard-113183.html#ixzz3KDA682Tz

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The Obama administration proposed a draft air pollution rule on Wednesday that business groups charge could be the costliest regulation of all time — setting up a test of how hard the president will fight for his environmental agenda against a newly strengthened GOP.

President Barack Obama has already blinked once on the rule, which aims to limit smog-creating ozone pollution after 2020 from power plants and factories: Just before Labor Day in 2011, he forced the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw an almost-final version of the rule, infuriating green groups that accused him of capitulating to industry pressure to ease his reelection. Obama said he was acting to “underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty.”

Now, facing a court order to issue a new proposal by next week, EPA has just issued a rule essentially as strong as the one the White House squelched three years ago — though not quite as strict as many environmental groups are calling for. It would lower the amount of ground-level ozone pollution that is considered healthy to breathe, which in turn could lead to costly new requirements for air pollution permits in much of the country.

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The administration contends the health benefits would far outweigh the costs, and would include fewer deaths, hospitalizations and missed days at school or work from illnesses like asthma or bronchitis. States would have to meet the new standards between 2020 and 2037.



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[applegrove]

1. It is a politico article but lots of good information in there.

[RiverLover]

2. When the UN says there's scientific proof we're killing life on earth with CO2, something has to be

done.

It'd be better than doing nothing.

[Turbineguy]

3. Costly

except perhaps for the people who don't die because of the lack of it.