EPA-Texas Feud Escalates Over New Carbon Regulations

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Businessweek.com:

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will take control of carbon-emission rules in Texas after Governor Rick Perry rejected new federal regulations intended to combat climate change.

The EPA will decide directly on greenhouse-gas permits for companies seeking to build or upgrade power plants and oil refineries in Texas, the agency said today in a statement. The EPA’s nationwide carbon rules, imposed under the Clean Air Act, take effect Jan. 2.

Texas is the only state that has refused to implement the new rules. President Barack Obama is pressing ahead with the regulations after Congress failed to pass legislation capping carbon emissions. Perry, a Republican, calls the rules overreaching by the federal government that will cripple his state’s economy.

“The EPA’s misguided plan paints a huge target on the backs of Texas agriculture and energy producers by implementing unnecessary, burdensome mandates on our state’s energy sector, threatening hundreds of thousands of Texas jobs and imposing increased living costs on Texas families,” Katherine Cesinger, a Perry spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.

The American Petroleum Institute in Washington, the largest U.S. lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, called the EPA’s plan improper.

‘Coercing’ States

“In unprecedented fashion, EPA is now coercing some states to relinquish their authority and is directly usurping state regulatory authority in Texas,” Howard Feldman, API’s director of regulatory and scientific affairs, said in a statement.
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It's nothing personal...it's strictly government business...

[Sabre86]

This is just Obama punishing any state which did not vote for him or are suing over Obamacare.