EPA Sinks Their Fangs into America

Killing jobs, slashing growth, roaming your home threatening your privacy and liberty, stalking us, dripping deficit ribbons of red ink as far as the eye can see:

Most pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act are trace com­pounds like ozone or mercury that are typically measured in parts per billion, so these threshold levels are sensible to distinguish de minimis contributors from significant ones. But carbon dioxide is not a trace compound, thus, existing Clean Air Act thresholds are ill suited. Background levels alone account for 275 parts per million, and even relatively small usage of fossil fuels could reach these thresholds. Thus, even the kitchen in a res­taurant, the heating system in an apartment or office building, or the activities associated with running a farm could cause these and other enti­ties--potentially more than a million buildings, 200,000 manufacturing operations, and 20,000 farms[4]--to face substantial and unprecedented requirements. Churches, hospitals, schools, and government buildings could also be subjected to these requirements.

This is the Obama EPA. Arrogant and elitist regulatory brute force based on bogus science:

These people generally also do not fear the loss of millions of factory, truck, construction and agriculture-related jobs slated to be "de-developed." These tasks can shift to China, India or Vietnam--where the net emissions would no doubt be higher--at little immediate cost to tenured professors, nonprofit executives or investment bankers. The endowments and the investment funds can just as happily mint their profits in Chongqing as in Chicago.

The Obama EPA is a menace to our way of life.

P.S. The Goracle writes a "poem". Send in the Tools. Scott, Powerline. The Copenhagen Concoction: The U.N.'s climate confab runs into the reality of costs and science. And An Inconvenient Democracy. WSJ.

More. Steve Huntley, Sun Times: Copenhagen pact will be costly, ineffective. Bret Stephens, WSJ: The Totalities of Copenhagen. Global warming and the psychology of true belief. Iain Murray and Marlo Lewis, NY Post: An EPA power grab