Daily Caller, January 3, 2014
It’s a new year and you know what that means — new regulations. The Obama
administration has wasted no time in writing them.
The website Regulations.gov lists 141 regulations that have been posted by federal
agencies in the last three days alone. Of these regulations, 119 are
“rulemaking,” meaning they establish a new rule. Twenty-three are
“non-rulemaking,” meaning the regulations do not establish a new rule.
The largest group of regulations has to do with energy and
environmental issues, many of them issued by the Environmental Protection
Agency. One new EPA regulation is an amendment to a rule on hazardous emissions from lead
smelters.
The EPA has come under fire from lawmakers for cracking down
on emissions from coal plants and other carbon-heavy fuels and materials. The
agency is also working
on 134 major and minor regulations that will take effect in the
coming years.
In particular, the agency is under fire for a rule that will
be finalized later this year capping carbon dioxide emissions from power
plants, effectively banning coal-fired power plants from being built.
“If these regulations go into effect, American jobs will be
lost, electricity prices will soar, and economic uncertainty will grow. We need
the federal government to work as a partner, not an adversary, and to invest in
America ’s
energy future,” said West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
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