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Breaking: Obama asks EPA to withdraw proposed
ozone rule

Posted on
September 2, 2011 by Steve
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President Barack Obama has asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw
the agency’s proposed toughened ozone standards, citing “the importance of
reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our
economy continues to recover.” The President’s statement
and EPA’s are below.

These
are rules that would provide no health benefits but cost $1 trillion per year in
compliance and kill 7.4 million jobs by 2020.

So this is a hugely important victory for American workers and the economy,
as well as those of us who have been fighting the EPA’s proposed ozone
standards.

In a separate statement, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson says the agency will
“revisit” the ozone standard. But that won’t occur until at least 2013 — when,
with any luck, she will be able to revisit it from an unemployment line.

President Obama’s statement:

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release September 02, 2011
Statement by the President on
the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards

Over the last two and half years, my administration, under the leadership
of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has taken some of the strongest actions
since the enactment of the Clean Air Act four decades ago to protect our
environment and the health of our families from air pollution. From reducing
mercury and other toxic air pollution from outdated power plants to doubling
the fuel efficiency of our cars and trucks, the historic steps we’ve taken
will save tens of thousands of lives each year, remove over a billion tons of
pollution from our air, and produce hundreds of billions of dollars in
benefits for the American people.

At the same time, I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing
regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy
continues to recover. With that in mind, and after careful consideration, I
have requested that Administrator Jackson withdraw the draft Ozone National
Ambient Air Quality Standards at this time. Work is already underway to update
a 2006 review of the science that will result in the reconsideration of the
ozone standard in 2013. Ultimately, I did not support asking state and local
governments to begin implementing a new standard that will soon be
reconsidered.

I want to be clear: my commitment and the commitment of my administration
to protecting public health and the environment is unwavering. I will continue
to stand with the hardworking men and women at the EPA as they strive every
day to hold polluters accountable and protect our families from harmful
pollution. And my administration will continue to vigorously oppose efforts to
weaken EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act or dismantle the progress we
have made.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s statement:

Statement by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on the Ozone National
Ambient Air Quality Standards

Since day one, under President Obama’s leadership, EPA has worked to ensure
health protections for the American people, and has made tremendous progress
to ensure that Clean Air Act standards protect all Americans by reducing our
exposures to harmful air pollution like mercury, arsenic and carbon dioxide.
This Administration has put in place some of the most important standards and
safeguards for clean air in U.S. history: the most significant reduction of
sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide air pollution across state borders; a
long-overdue proposal to finally cut mercury pollution from power plants; and
the first-ever carbon pollution standards for cars and trucks. We will revisit
the ozone standard, in compliance with the Clean Air Act.

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32 Responses to Breaking: Obama asks EPA to withdraw
proposed ozone rule

BrianJay | September
2, 2011 at 10:55 am | Reply

Superb, fantastic, terrific

Whats the catch?

reliag | September
2, 2011 at 12:02 pm | Reply

The catch is: It’s disingenuous. He is only trying to appear to be
pro-business (aka pro-jobs). If he somehow gets re-elected, he will just
revert back to his anti-business, anti-jobs policies.

Robert of Ottawa | September
3, 2011 at 6:54 pm | Reply

Teleprompter alert!

There is only a request and a promise to revisit, not exactly concrete. I
am an amature student of rhetoric and I can say that these are meaningless
words. Did either of these turds state:”We will end these regulations”? No,
they will revisit ….. This process will take them past 2012 …. If Obuma is
reelected, his minions will be at it again..

Brandon Caswell | September
2, 2011 at 11:13 am | Reply

The catch is that he really wants another 4 years and knows damn well he
wont get it if he continues to kill jobs. Give him 4 more years and this will
be resurrected right after election.

Peter Alaniz | September
2, 2011 at 11:31 am | Reply

I’d like to see more regulations backed off a bit more including the ones
pertaining to agriculture!

mkelly | September
2, 2011 at 11:44 am | Reply

So he asked her not do to something she hasn’t done yet, but could in the
future (2013) if he got re-elected. This is not serious.

Janice | September
2, 2011 at 11:44 am | Reply

“From reducing mercury and other toxic air pollution from outdated power
plants to doubling the fuel efficiency of our cars and trucks”

Translation: We’re still going to shut down a bunch of power plants based
on our spurious air pollution claims, and no backing down from ridiculous laws
that can only go into effect if cars and trucks aren’t made as well, and thus
cause more death and injury if they are in accidents.

“withdraw the draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards at this
time. Work is already underway to update a 2006 review of the science that
will result in the reconsideration of the ozone standard in 2013.”

Translation: We’ll take this unpopular rule and shelve it until after the
election is over, and besides ozone is not as big an issue as it used to
be.

“I will continue to stand with the hardworking men and women at the EPA as
they strive every day to hold polluters accountable and protect our families
from harmful pollution.”

Translation: The EPA will still be allowed to shut down American business
through their random edicts, and harmful pollution still includes carbon
dioxide.

“And my administration will continue to vigorously oppose efforts to weaken
EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act or dismantle the progress we have
made.”

Translation: Don’t even think about trying to tie the hands of people who
are not accountable to America or Americans, and who are basically passing
laws that do not have to be discussed or voted on.

Ted Long | September
2, 2011 at 11:49 am | Reply

What interests me most is that he can order the EPA to do his bidding. Just
how powerful is this guy? Is the Constitutional limiting of power being
laughed at here?

iheartagw | September
2, 2011 at 12:25 pm | Reply

EPA is part of the President’s cabinet. He can tell Jackson to do
whatever. That is, until Sierra Club/Green Peace/NRDC sue Jackson for
inaction.

jarmo | September
2, 2011 at 11:50 am | Reply

Yep. Must be getting close to election time. Many unions have been on his
back about job-killing regulations issued by the EPA, including the United
Mine Workers. Of course they don’t care what the regulations would cost the
consumer.

iheartagw | September
2, 2011 at 12:40 pm | Reply

EPA shenanigans will not cease until health thresholds are established, or
at least approved, by Congress before a rule can be promulgated. It is high
time for Senator Inhofe and other realist environmentally minded Congressman
form a bipartisan committee to appoint experts on both sides of an issue to
review peer-reviewed studies (I nominate Steve Milloy as the first expert) and
debate publicly. This BS process of EPA developing new health threshold levels
in a corner is definitely stacked in EPA’s favor. Who the hell has time to
comment on the myriad rules coming out of EPA anyway? I work as an air quality
consultant and I cannot keep up with the Obama regulatory blitzkrieg. The
Endangerment Finding was nothing more than a rubber stamping of a now
seriously and embarrassingly flawed U.N. IPCC AR. The public comment period
for this move was a complete sham (and very strangely expedited I might add).
Congress should demand it be reopened and include scientific and policy
testimony from Milloy, Lindzen, Spencer, Morano, etal. And if EPA continues to
disallow a reopening of the Endangerment Finding, then Congress needs to
revisit the CAA and clearly state that EPA does not have the authority to
regulate GHGs under PSD and NSPS. Hopefully we will have a one party House and
Senate after 2012.

Gregory Brittain | September
2, 2011 at 1:41 pm | Reply

If Obama wins, Lisa Jackson and the EPA will be unleashed. This is not a
change of direction. It is merely tactical to help Obama win.

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Sam E Moore
Jr | September
2, 2011 at 2:39 pm | Reply

Slick Trick ! Obama is simply practicing Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals
.
Rule #13 .
I might ad where he worked for 4 years in Chicago as a
street Agitator .
As of Monday Obama handed Congress 4,212 new Business
regulations .
The Farming regulations Numbers are huge as well
.

Henry Bowman | September
2, 2011 at 3:19 pm | Reply

Ah… wonder what UNION the new regulations discomfited?

Charlie
Coombs | September
2, 2011 at 3:54 pm | Reply

Oh yeah? Well, Mr. Smartpants, what about cow farts? Huh? Huh? I’m
listening!

Ted Long | September
3, 2011 at 11:46 am | Reply

There is a contingent of the environmental activists and the PETA crowd
that want to ban beef (all meat, actually), and even milk.

DG | September
2, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Reply

You’d think the government could also claim responsibility for air
pollution crossing national boundaries, too. We could always declare war on
China for all their coal power plants, Mexico for their sulfur dioxide from
around Mexico City. Then again Canada might have a strong case against the
U.S.

Sas P | September
2, 2011 at 6:09 pm | Reply

Nohting like a re-election campaign to enforce some Reality until the day
after the election…

keepdad
| September
2, 2011 at 6:28 pm | Reply

Ultimately it is his freaking department. A real leader would tell the EPA
to withdraw the rule. What is this “asking” crap?

Bob Armstrong | September
2, 2011 at 6:29 pm | Reply

“mercury, arsenic and carbon dioxide”

Which is
0 ) a strong poison ?
1 ) a rather weak poison ?
2 ) The
building block of life ?

Pam Uphoff | September
2, 2011 at 6:50 pm | Reply

The president has a little over a year to get the economy, or people’s
perception of it, heading strongly upwards, or he can kiss re-election
goodbye. This is a starting move. All politics and no
conviction.

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pyeatte | September
2, 2011 at 9:53 pm | Reply

Just vote these gangsters out next year and fight them tooth and nail until
then.

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Jonathan Spencer | September
3, 2011 at 7:26 am | Reply

Your Obama = Our Brown/Blair SOBs.

We booted our pinko statists out. Let’s hope for the sake of the whole
world the US does the same next year to your lot.

pockets64 | September
3, 2011 at 10:30 am | Reply

Jonathan Spencer: Now that we’ve booted our pinko statists out, who is
going to keep on ranting that Obama has no control over the EPA and that the
EPA is only just now putting into force rules planned since the Bush
era?

oldcheme | September
3, 2011 at 11:12 am | Reply

Steve Milloy was asked about other government agencies that impose similar
business killing regulations and the MMS and some other minor agencies were
mentioned. CARB and the LCFS was not raised. Steve, get on it, its a job and
business killer that is based on total BS.

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Janet Wineglass | September
6, 2011 at 12:32 am | Reply

On first read, I think .. oh well better than nothing.. second time it
sounds like a warning/threat. as in I’ll let this one slide but
beware….
The sad thing is that however clear the insincerity of this
statement is to those who post here, most people accept what they read without
thinking. Transparent ploys like this could actually work and put him in the
white house for another four years (shudder).

In the interests of both lowering the deficit and giving Americans the
freedom we are constitutionally promised. the EPA would at the top of y list
for elimination. But hell, who asks
me!

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Tina S | September
9, 2011 at 12:03 pm | Reply

Who can afford the new cars and trucks? Where are the billions that this is
saving us? I’d like some of that now, please. No, Mr. President, do not
revisit in 2013. There is no need to do that. Even I, clueless as I can be,
can see that this is a carrot, an appeasement. Can’t he put a stop to all
these regulations for a while?

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