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Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« on: February 16, 2010, 06:40:50 PM »
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DALLAS, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government's authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Texas, which leads U.S. states in carbon dioxide emissions due to its heavy concentration of oil refining and other industries, will see a major impact if U.S. mandatory emissions reductions take effect.

In December, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger human health, opening the door for the agency to issue mandatory regulations to reduce them.

Texas said it had filed a petition for review challenging the EPA's "endangerment finding" with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Texas has also asked the EPA to reconsider its ruling.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1661844120100216
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Re: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 06:48:37 PM »
Since all of the Glowbull Warming crap is just that, then Texas should easily win. The EPA, like the IRS and the TSA, is just another jack-booted Government thug alphabet organization that does nothing but attempt to justify their positions.
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Re: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 07:02:16 PM »
If I were Texas, and lost the case, then I would place an exorbitant fee on all refined products leaving the state.
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Re: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2010, 08:34:32 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 16, 2010, 07:02:16 PM
If I were Texas, and lost the case, then I would place an exorbitant fee on all refined products leaving the state.

Hi,

Miss Jo and I are thinking about buying some property there, maybe just a small trailer, in hope they will secede from the union.

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Re: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2010, 10:45:36 PM »
Quote from: 5412 on February 16, 2010, 08:34:32 PM
Hi,

Miss Jo and I are thinking about buying some property there, maybe just a small trailer, in hope they will secede from the union.

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If they did, I would hope that LA, OK and MS would follow suit. Talk about corner the market on oil, natural gas, seafood, imports from South America, etc.
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Re: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2010, 10:51:54 PM »
This whole global warming stuff needs to be done away with
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Re: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2010, 09:54:36 AM »
Been studying this since 1959. CONCLUSION, humans have no effect on global climate but can effect local climate quite a bit on the small scale. CO2 from humanity has NO EFFECT on global climate. Sea level changes are utterly managable and are NOT a problem , much less a crisis. Over the next 2000 years we are more likely to lapse intto a new 100,000 year period of ice age than a tropical earth. Anthropogenic CO2 has no measurable effect on climate, hell, "termitepogenic" CO2 exceeds HUMAN BY A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT!


The current hysteria is a witch hunt that needs to be stopped right now.
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