EPA Proposes Rolling Back New Air Pollution Rules In 10 States - Texas Was Angry, You See . . .

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed easing new pollution restrictions that angered several states and infuriated GOP presidential contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The proposed fix to the cross-state pollution rule would allow 10 states, especially Texas, to emit more smog-causing pollution than had initially been permitted. The rule is designed to decrease smokestack emissions, mostly from coal-fired power plants, in 27 states, that contribute to unhealthy air downwind.

Texas, faced with a growing population, few new energy sources, hot summers and more coal-fired power plants than any other state, has vocally opposed the rule.

Perry has used it as fodder in his long-standing accusation that the EPA under President Barack Obama meddles in state affairs and lays down expensive regulations in tough economic times, forcing companies to cut jobs to offset the costs of compliance. He wrote a letter to Obama last month urging him to delay implementation of the rule after one of the state's largest energy suppliers, Luminant Generation Co., announced it would have to idle two units and layoff hundreds of workers to comply with the rules by 2012.

Perry said the changes proposed by the EPA "prove there are undeniable flaws" with the rule and that he will "continue to fight the job killing mandates passed down by this administration and the unelected bureaucrats at the EPA." But EPA regional administrator Al Armendariz said the agency's decision to ease the standards had to do with new data and was not political. He also noted no changes have been made to the compliance calendar Texas and other states had criticized. The changes will also ease the restrictions for Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin and Arkansas.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/oct/06/us-clean-air-epa/

[broiles]

1. air quality in Texas

Dear Gov. Goodhair,
Is air pollution just a theory? I can look out my window and see it, but my eyes could be lying. How about my nose? I can smell it. My lungs don't think it's a theory.

[indepat]

3. How many will die due to easing "job killing" pollution regulations, as if

Mr. Goodhair and his ilk would give a diddledy-shit how many. :patriot:

[GeorgeGist]

2. Yes We Can!

na nana na nana

[wtmusic]

4. What...fold like a cheap suit?