THE LAWNMOWER MEN

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In a huge document released last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lays out the thousands of carbon controls with which they'd like to shackle the whole economy. The mess began in 2007, when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Mass. v. EPA that greenhouse gases are "air pollutants" under current environmental laws, despite the fact that the laws were written decades before the climate-change panic.

The EPA's 588-page "advance notice of proposed rulemaking" lays out new mandates for everything with an engine. The limits are so low that they would apply to hundreds of thousands of sources, consequently the EPA admits that the entire country would be in nonattainment.

Any climate tax [should] involve arguments about costs and benefits; voting to raise energy prices is not conducive to re-election. But if liberals can outsource their policies to the EPA, they can take credit while avoiding any accountability for the huge economic costs they impose...

[nowhere is the liberal mindset more dangerous [in part because they're appointed for life] than in the appointment of judges. The next President will likely appoint three Supreme Court Justices - please vote wisely]

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