Supreme Court overturns landmark EPA air pollution rule
From The Hill:
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Obama administration’s landmark air quality rule on Monday, ruling the Environmental Protection Agency did not properly consider the costs of the regulation.
In a 5-4 ruling, the justices ruled that the EPA should have taken into account the costs to utilities and others in the power sector before even deciding whether to set limits for the toxic air pollutants it regulated in 2011.
The case, Michigan v. EPA, centers on the EPA’s first limits on mercury, arsenic and acid gases emitted by coal-fired power plants, known as mercury and air toxics (MATS). Opponents, including the National Federation of Independent Business, say it's among the costliest regulations ever issued.
The EPA estimated its rule, which took effect for some plants in April, would cost $9.6 billion, produce between $37 billion and $90 billion in benefits and prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma cases annually.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/246423-supreme-court-overturns-epa-air-pollution-rule
On the upside, Obamacare covers asthma...
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right wingers on this court don't think that just a tad of arsenic and mercury in the air supply, and the pesky acid rain polluting the same water that we all drink and the fish and other aquatic forms of survival that is harvested from the lakes, streams and oceans don't mean much.
It just goes to show they also don't breath the same air we all breath on this blue marble in space and its doesn't mean much.
And then there is this:
"Opponents, including the National Federation of Independent Business, say it's among the costliest regulations ever issued."
I don't think so when I have to pay for your mess with my health care costs--------jerks
I guess the pollution industry with the help of this corrupt court can tell all of us on this planet if they would drink the water from the Dan River---------for starters, if its not to much trouble.
Then if that's not good enough, lets see if they would like to have they eaten any shrimp from the Gulf Coast region-----------I haven't --------------I quit eating shrimp from anywhere on this planet.
Gotta, give a great big thanks for BP oil and any other polluters out there on that one, it was only about 280 million barrels of oil.
And finally maybe they can go ask the Koch Brothers ( since they are part of this federation) if they would like to stand down wind from the coke ash they have planted along the lake in Michigan for about a year, and see if they like the thought they are breathing in arsenic and mercury from there wastes they produce--just for starters.
Then, this same court rules through its litmus test of reasoning that since there is "no dollar amount " equated in the costs, that everyone that comes down with all these health issues is no big deal.
I guess they didn't see the video in North Carolina on what a coal fired generator does with all of its sludge like arsenic, mercury being dumped into the Dan River:
http://www.wunderground.com/news/north-carolina-coal-ash-spill-20140206
Go Bernie -----------this election is about the U.S. Supreme court
Honk-------------for a political revolution
Sanders 2016
