The Clean Air Fork

Last Friday a utility backed lawsuit struck down the EPA established Clean Air Interstate rule, which resulted in yet another broken tine off the clean air fork. The EPA now has even less ability to enforce controls on major pollutants in industry.

Then, as this EPA administration is famous for, within hours of the ruling EPA also went ahead and determined that it has no obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, that it would have been an unprecedented expansion of their powers, and would impact the economics of every household in the land. This tine, also broken off, means that this EPA has left cleaner air to the next president. Eight years of complete inaction is what we've got.

Not hours after signing the newest energy bill last December, the EPA administrator denied California's waiver request for regulating greenhouse emissions from vehicles, after delaying the decision by almost two years. It came within hours after this 'energy' bill which raised CAFE standards for the first time in, what, three decades? And the reasoning for the denial was incredibly mendacious. "Because I said so" was effectively his response.

First off, since when has any of these Republican led administrations had any concern for an unprecedented expansion of their powers?

I suppose inaction is inevitable.