Mitch Daniels on Environment

Republican IN Governor

Rename EPA as Employment Prevention Agency

The EPA (which probably should be renamed the Employment Prevention Agency) declared with no statutory basis at all that it had the power to regular carbon dioxide, which is necessary to live on this planet, as a dangerous pollutant, on par with mercury or lead. A compliant judiciary somehow found a way to defer. Not only has Congress never empowered the EPA to limit CO2, it has expressly refused to do so on multiple occasions, even when asked by President Obama during the highly compliant 111th Congress. No problem. The unelected EPA and the unelected federal judiciary collaborated to redefine CO2 on their own, unleashing the agency to pursue the irrational, horrendously expensive, job-killing policy of carbon limitation despite the nonagreement of "the people's branch" [the legislature]. Source: Keeping the Republic, by Mitch Daniels, p. 163 , Sep 20, 2011

Reduced air pollution in 23 non-compliant counties

In Indiana we have made enormous headway by clearing out a backlog of some 450 expired air and water permits. In some cases, these had been pending for more than 20 years. I came to understand why the businesses involved were not complaining: new permits invariably require lower limits and tighter restrictions than the expired version. When, in 2011, the last of these antique permits was rewritten, we had reduced collective emissions by thousands of tons per year. In 2010, Indiana also hit a benchmark in air quality. For the first time since the passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act, all 92 counties in the state met all applicable federal clean air standards. In 2004, air tests had revealed that twenty-three counties and one township didn't meet the federal standards. Source: Keeping the Republic, by Mitch Daniels, p.163 , Sep 20, 2011

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