EPA Ignores Supreme Court Ruling on Greenhouse Gas
After the Supreme court ruled last year that the EPA determine whether greenhouse gas is dangerous to the public. If they are in fact dangerous, they mus take regulatory action to reduce them under the Clean Air Act. Instead of following through with this plan, the EPA administrator signed a 1000 page document saying instead how making such regulations would hurt the economy. He said that it would be the wrong way to go and it would cost way too much.
Once again, our government fails to do anything to help our country’s pollution problem. I think this is completely ridiculous that time after time, our government ignores ways to possibly help preserve our environment and instead find ways to get around doing anything. Apparently, there was also a major change in the document from a previous draft where $2 trillion in savings could be achieved for consumers at the gas pump. This number somehow changed to more than half that amount and used improper numbers to make the claim. It’s no surprise that numbers were changed so that they can waste more money contributing nothing to this country.
This bill could have made huge strides to help save money for consumers as well as moving our country in the right direction. My biggest complaint is that the President has said continually that he thinks the better direction for this company is to fund new technologies that could help reduce greenhouse gas. The problem with this plan is we may not see these changes for years to come. I fully support funding technologies for the future, but you can’t just ignore the problems that we are faced with now.
My biggest hope would be for our country to follow what others have done. In my previous article on last week’s green news, Britain has already taken legislation to ensure that they turn to sustainable sources of energy instead of relying on oil and coal.
