EPA Rules Will Trump Your Rights

HT:Investors.EPA Rules Will Trump Your Rights.Environment: Ignoring both Congress and the voters, the Environmental Protection Agency starts the new year governing by decree with job-killing regulations. Take a deep breath, but if you exhale you're a polluter.Cap-and-trade is dead, long live cap-and-trade in the form of regulations promulgated in the coming year by what George Orwell might call the Ministry of Environment. It claims that the Clean Air Act and a Supreme Court ruling in 2007 let the EPA regulate carbon dioxide as a planet-warming pollutant.Oh, and remember those high-speed electric trains in China that have people like the New York Times' Tom Friedman cooing over how green China is? James Fallows, writing in the Atlantic, quotes a Chinese official as saying they are being built to move passenger trains out of the way of coal trains.As it turns out, much of China's domestic coal is far inland away from urban centers. High-speed trains, as such, have nothing to do with being "green." Far from it. They enable China to use more coal — not less.As Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, related on a YouTube video: "Lisa Jackson, Obama's EPA administrator, admitted to me publicly that EPA based its action today (issuing its finding) in good measure on the findings of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. She told me that EPA accepted those findings without any serious, independent analysis to see whether they were true."We hope the incoming Republican House will deal rapidly with what is bad regulation based on junk science.Hmmmm.....Look at Europe what the "Green" parties made of it, so many regulations that businesses can't even implement them!Read the full disaster story here.