The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.
Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.
As many as 90 new regulations are in the works, and at least nine of them are considered "economically significant" because they impose costs or promote societal benefits that exceed $100 million annually. They include new rules governing employees who take family- and medical-related leaves, new standards for preventing or containing oil spills, and a simplified process for settling real estate transactions.
Two other rules nearing completion would , a major energy industry goal for the past eight years that is strenuously opposed by Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups.
Deregulation being push by Bush includes:
1. easing limits on pollution from power plants, According to the EPA's estimate, it would allow millions of tons of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually, worsening global warming.
2. easing limits on emissions from coal-fired power plants near national parks.
3. allowing increased emissions from oil refineries, chemical factories and other industrial plants with complex manufacturing operations.
4. clearing obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, such as catch limits
5. easing controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming
6. lifting a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining
7. relaxing drinking-water standards
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Come on Congress, do your job!
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Are you serious?
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- justwannafindmytrue
- 1 year ago
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Congress should stop this. Republicans, Democrats, Independents and other parties should work together to STOP THIS DOMESTIC TERRORIST (a.k.a Bush). He has used his power to destroy the constitution, ruin the U.S. reputation and is probably gathering money to leave the U.S. and live prosperously elsewhere (like other dictators do).
To Congress: Do your job to stop him. We U.S. citizens are doing ours by voting for the right person for the job.
Don't forget to vote Obama/Biden on Nov. 4th
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- currentlyreading
- 1 year ago
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Well, aren't Obama and McCain in Congress still? What are they going to do about it? What is Congress going to do about it?! GD it I am so sick of this. But hey, campaigning and raising money is SO much more important.
'The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo'
Could be difficult for his successor to undo?
What a copout.
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- JanforGore
- 1 year ago
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Congress should do everything in its power to stop Bush and his plans, for as long as he is existing as a president, Congress must stop him, but can they do it?
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- metalcookiesxy70
- 1 year ago
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We may have to protect our own drinking water.
Now do you see why we have the second amendment?-
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- Annnonymous
- 1 year ago
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the only way dissent to this bill will be known is if we, the american people who found out about this bill call our leaders and let them know how we feel. these policies are not like the bailout. there is no gray area whether or not these policies are need like the bailout. to do this in our period that we have now of increased awareness of global warming is to directly spit in the faces of the inhabitants of our global enviorment
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- escarondito
- 1 year ago
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It's like they are bent on us experiencing hell on earth! Stop those devils!
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He is keeping industry happy. If you are ever going to want change your going to have to hit them where it hurts the most, in their pockets. Stop using gas, stop using your car. Electricity... There will be no other way. We are complaining about the very fabric of what we are and how use it.
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- RubberRims
- 1 year ago
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I wonder if his last act before he leaves the White House will be to set Washington on fire.
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- Paddlenround
- 1 year ago
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People are so blind... I bet this wont make mainstream news...
But Americans deserve this because they wont do anything about it... This man went to war on a lie, for oil, over 4000 American citizens died in Iraq so a few can get rich off oil.
Bush is getting away with this and he knows it, so why not do some more damage, he knows nothing will happen so why not, Bush and Co. dont care, they are above the law and they know it.
I still dont understand some of these hard working Americans that are suffering so much because of all this bullshit that has been going on last few years, that still support this man. In their mind we are still best at everything and the strongest. :(
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Let's see how many other things he and his try to get under the wire before the clock runs out.
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- necrotized
- 1 year ago
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GWB = Greasy Whore Bastard
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Do these guys just sit around dreaming up ways to f**k things up? January 20th can't come soon enough.
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obviously he is doing whatever he can to hurt obama when he is elected president!
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The slimb ball is up to no good yet again...
deregulating so his elitist buds can further clean up!The history of deregulation is with Bush / McCain.
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Congress can't do anything about it. He is doing this on his own accord and no one can't stop him. Congress has no jurisdiction over his decisions because it's federal. He's using his cronies to get what he wants. Just like HHS classifying birth control as a form of abortion.
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CHAOS = OPPORTUNITY = $$$$$$
WORKED SO FAR ;)
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/09/now-time-resist-wall-streets-shock-do...Fear & Greed Corp reigns under the guise of Mindfuck Inc. !
* WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH *
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- WhiteNoise
- 1 year ago
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The guy has gone ape-shit in the last years of his Presidency.
And really, what can you do?
Oh yeah, VOTE FOR OBAMA.
Seriously, I don't want to have to deal with these fuckers for a long time.
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Ya... that deregulation has really worked out well. Bush is so unqualified to be president.
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- grease_weasel
- 1 year ago
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WAKE UP AMERICA !
YOUR RULING CLASS IS HAVING A FIELD DAY AROUND THE WORLD WITH THEIR MIGHTY WAR MACHINE WHILE THE MIDDLE CLASS IS BEING TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS...
"The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the conscience' of the civilized world." : James Baldwin
"America is the first empire to go from barbarity to decadence without going through civilization" - Oscar Wilde
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- WhiteNoise
- 1 year ago
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It is a disaster and I knew it would be 8 years ago! The sooner this digusting individual leaves office the sooner we can sort out His madness and it's unraveling.
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- disgusted_again
- 1 year ago
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true colors always show in the end.
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I do believe Bush is the dumb, rednecked and bumbling version of Sauron from LOTR..... only he actually seems to be far more successful in obliterating humanity for the sake of greed. Hmm.
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- Current_Pixi
- 1 year ago
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FIND THE EMAIL/ADDRESSES OF YOUR REPS AND CONGRESSMEN THEN WRITE, SPAM, HARRASS TIL YOUR LIL HEARTS CONTENT. I DO.
