Climate Change EPA Regulations : Insanity On Parade

Without reservation, anyone that can claim not to be a nitwit, or a half wit, can conclude the EPA is dedicated to the destruction of the American economy as more and more restrictive regulations are forced upon all industry, and especially the fossil energy producers.


The EPA actions are directed from the White House to ensure Mr Obama's ideology of his promised "Fundamental change" of America from a representative republic to a socialist democracy much like those in Europe. And as one of the most irresponsible agencies in our government, and the most out of control and unconstitutional, the EPA is spearheading the attack to make the fundamental change a reality.


And worse, with the first four years of the disastrous democratic nightmare on the books, the voting public voted again for more pain and destruction. Why is ignorance so prevalent and an obvious willingness to become subservient among the population?




The EPA Proposes New Climate Change Initiative Regulations
Source: "EPA to Regulate Methane Emissions Despite Huge Decline," Institute for Energy Research, March 5, 2015.


March 13, 2015

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas sector as part of its ongoing climate change initiatives, mandating a reduction of 40 to 45 percent by 2015 from 2012 levels.


Even before EPA started promulgating these regulations — according to EPA's own data report — methane emissions fell by 35 percent from natural gas operations since 2007 while natural gas production increased by 22 percent due to the voluntary implementation of new technologies. This new regulation will accomplish very little but risk being a drain on one of the few booming industries in a stagnant economy.


The newly proposed methane regulations are being imposed for political reasons - to increase influence during December's United Nations climate meeting in Paris.
Methane emissions have accounted for about 9 percent of the greenhouse gases emitted in the United States. Only about 3 percent are subject to the proposed EPA regulations, of which they wants to reduce about half; while carbon dioxide emissions have accounted for 82 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. If the United States were to eliminate all carbon dioxide emissions now and forever, the amount of global warming would be just 0.10°C by the end of the century according to computer models. Therefore, the new EPA regulations would reduce 1.5 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions and produce just 0.002°C of temperature savings.


Having already targeted power plants, cars and other sources of emissions, the Obama administration is pushing to regulate the oil and gas sector, one of the greatest economic success stories of the past ten years.