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Last Friday, EPA issued a pre-publication version of the agency’s 51st
regulatory takeover of a state Clean Air Act program, also known as a
Federal Implementation Plan (“FIP”). This time, the victim was Arizona.
To be precise, the agency imposed visibility improvement requirements,
known as Regional Haze, on at a number of stationary sources in Arizona,
including: Tucson Electric Power’s Sundt Generating Station Unit 4,
Lhoist North America’s Nelson Lime Plant Kilns 1 and 2, ASARCO Inc.’s
Hayden Smelter, Freeport-McMoran Inc.’s Miami Smelter, Phoenix Cement
Co.’s Clarkdale Plant Kiln 4 and CalPortland Cement’s Rillito Plant Kiln
4. Compliance will cost the affected entities millions of dollars; the
“benefits,” alas, are apparitional. The regulation won’t engender a
discernible improvement in visibility.
Below, I’ve provided an ongoing analysis compiled by globalwarming.org,
of Clean Air Act FIPs rendered by each of the last four Presidents. As
is rendered clear by the chart, President Obama has taken a very
different view of Clean Air Act cooperative federalism than has his
predecessors. Evidently, Obama’s is the age of uncooperative federalism.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Uncooperative Federalism: EPA Issues 51st Clean Air Act FIP of the Obama Age
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