{"id":36406,"date":"2013-06-26T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36406"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T00:07:03","slug":"machin-mad-at-obama-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36406","title":{"rendered":"Manchin mad at Obama again (Updated with video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it yesterday, the president tried to divert our attention from his administration’s failures once again by announcing that he’s going to make the Environmental Protection Agency put new emission standards<\/a> in place for coal-fired power generation stations. Somehow that will save the world’s environment because we tighten emission standards on the billion tons of coal that we burn in the US compared to the eight billion tons that are burned worldwide.<\/p>\n

Of course, the cost of complying with these new standards will fall on consumers, raising the cost of our electricity, effectively a tax which will affect lower income workers most. In the middle of a jobless recession. You know like this administration changed the culture of the military in the middle of a war because intentions are more important than results.<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, Joe Manchin, the junior Senator from West Virginia was just on Fox News expressing his outrage and telling us how he’s mad at the president for this announcement which will greatly impact this state, since we’re still a coal-based economy. He was elected here mainly because he was good on guns and good on coal. Since he was elected, he’s jumped in bed with Chuck Schumer over guns, so this latest faux-anger at the president over the expected hits to the coal industry and consumers will probably end up the same way.<\/p>\n

Fox News admits that the process is a long one;<\/p>\n

Under the process outlined in the Clean Air Act, the EPA cannot act unilaterally, but must work with states to develop the standards, said Jonas Monast, an attorney who directs the climate and energy program at Duke University. An initial proposal will be followed by a months-long public comment period before the EPA can issue final guidance to states. Then the states must create actual plans for plants within their borders, a process likely to take the better part of a year. <\/p>\n

Then the EPA has another four months to decide whether to approve each state’s plan before the implementation period can start. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it’s another lawyer-employment opportunity, because most of the regs that come out of the EPA are litigated before they’re completely implemented.<\/p>\n

Video added, below the jump;
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