Marc Marano:
Washington DC — Former Obama Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Charles McConnell eviscerated the President’s proposed EPA Clean Power Plan regulation to fight global warming in testimony before Congress.
McConnell’s full testimony here:
Former Assistant Secretary: “The Clean Power Plan (CPP) has been falsely sold as impactful environmental regulation when it is really an attempt by our primary federal environmental regulator to take over state and federal regulation of energy.”
“What is also clear, scientifically and technically, is that EPA’s plan will not significantly impact global emissions.”
“Consider that all of the U.S. annual emissions in 2025 will be offset by three weeks of Chinese emissions. Three weeks. So it is dramatically uneventful. Is this impactful climate regulation? I think not.”
I am shocked.
Part of the reason we got 10 acres so inexpensively when we retired was that our private road circled around a lea (meadow) where four of our road’s gutters emptied into.
When it pours we get enough rain water to make a large puddle in the center of the lea’s lowest point.
In mere hours that puddle is absorbed into the grassland.
But, the sellers were worried about letters from the EPA that their puddle was a ”navigable waterway” and their fears led to a low selling price.
The EPA has come onto our land twice trying to catch our puddle in the act of being navigable but they were too late.
It disappears so quickly into the ground.
I’m all for clean air and water, but what would it take to pull some of the teeth of the EPA? They are mad with power and have become another weapon of the left for government control of business.