Unhinged EPA About to Make Air
Travel More Expensive
By Stephen Kruiser in PJ Media
The Obama administration is set to
announce that it will require new rules to cut emissions from airplanes,
expanding a quest to tackle climate change that has included a string of
significant regulations on cars, trucks and power plants.
The Environmental Protection Agency
is expected to report as early as Friday its conclusion that greenhouse gas
emissions from airplanes endanger human health because they significantly
contribute to global warming, although people familiar with the agency’s plans
said the announcement could slip into next week.
That announcement, known in legal
parlance as an endangerment finding, will prompt a requirement under the Clean
Air Act for the agency to issue new regulations to reduce airplane emissions.
The agency is expected to limit the rule to commercial aircraft, leaving out
small craft and military planes.
Under the 1970 Clean Air Act, the
federal government is required to regulate all pollutants that are found to
endanger human health. The E.P.A. put forth similar endangerment findings on
emissions from vehicles and power plants before issuing new regulations on
them, and those findings have held up in court.
The new rules, which have been
furiously opposed by regulated industries and Republicans, have emerged as a
hallmark of President Obama’s environmental legacy. Republicans have called the
new rules an example of government overreach that will cost jobs and stifle the
economy.
These enviro-hippies are getting
expensive. As with so many things leftists are fond of, this is another step
towards some international regulatory kumbaya:
The E.P.A.’s finding would lay the
groundwork for the United States to adopt the emissions standard being negotiated
by the International Civil Aviation Organization. That group aims by next year
to set new emissions standards for airlines, which have said that national
rules would do little to curb emissions, given the industry’s global reach.
Expect Obama to get hyperactive
about overreaching on climate hysteria and his anti-Second Amendment plans for
the remainder of his term. Hopefully, much of it will eventually not withstand
various legal challenges.
Hopefully.
The Republicans certainly aren’t
doing much to slow him down.
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