Yesterday's Washington Examiner reported that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun to enforce new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from new or expanded power plants. The EPA has also issued its first exemption to the new rules.
According to the Environment & Energy News:
"The Obama administration will spare a stalled power plant project in California from the newest federal limits on greenhouse gases and conventional air pollution, U.S. EPA says in a new court filing that marks a policy shift in the face of industry groups and Republicans accusing the agency of holding up construction of large industrial facilities.
"According to a declaration by air chief Gina McCarthy, officials reviewed EPA policies and decided it was appropriate to "grandfather" projects such as the Avenal Power Center, a proposed 600-megawatt power plant in the San Joaquin Valley, so they are exempted from rules such as new air quality standards for smog-forming nitrogen dioxide (NO2)."
If you look further into this 'exemption', it reminds me of all the waivers given in Obamacare.
The article at the Washington Examiner reports:
"The proposed Avenal Energy project will be a combined-cycle generating plant consisting of two natural gas-fired General Electric 7FA Gas Turbines with Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) and one General Electric Steam Turbine."
I am sure that the fact that GE CEO Jeff Immelt is so close to President Obama has nothing to do with this exemption. Yeah, right. The government under the present administraiton is getting totally out of control. This is Chicago politics in Washington. It needs to be stopped. Congress is planning to act to restrict the EPA in their actions (they are putting in place the 'cap and trade bill' that Congress could not pass). I hope Congress is successful.
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