Unions Take Issue With EPA Regulations, Warn of Potential for Lost Jobs

[Peter Pan]

Unions Take Issue With EPA Regulations, Warn of Potential for Lost Jobs

Published March 14, 2011
| The Wall Street Journal


The Obama administration's environmental agenda, long a target of American business, is beginning to take fire from some of the Democratic Party's most reliable supporters: Labor unions.

Several unions with strong influence in key states are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency soften new regulations aimed at pollution associated with coal-fired power plants. Their contention: Roughly half a dozen rules expected to roll out within the next two years could put thousands of jobs in jeopardy and damage the party's 2012 election prospects.

"If the EPA issues regulations that cost jobs in Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Republicans will blast the President with it over and over," says Stewart Acuff, chief of staff to the president of the Utility Workers Union of America. "Not just the President. Every Democratic [lawmaker] from those states."

Several unions with strong influence in key states are demanding that the EPA soften new regulations aimed at pollution associated with coal-fired power plants.

A range of American companies that depend on fossil fuel-from coal and oil firms to manufacturers-have complained about the Obama EPA, one reason the administration has had tense relations with business. In meetings in recent days, representatives of electric power utilities that rely heavily on coal-fired plants, and some large unions, have taken their concerns to the White House. The companies and the unions have said a new regulation targeting mercury and other toxic pollutants, due to be proposed this week, could lead to higher electric bills, billions of dollars in new costs and the closing of plants that employ thousands of workers.

Now that labor unions are joining the chorus, the pressure on the agency is intensifying. Some Democrats, worried about potential job losses in industrial states, are already urging the EPA to slow down its push to combat climate change.

That is what we need the job killing Obama EPA to force crap down out throats, kill everything except for solar, wind and electric cars, oh those electric cars need power plants:hi:

[Exotix]

Write a letter to Cheney that you're behind his *Culture of De-Regulation* Energy Task Force responsible for loss of jobs and every environmental disaster since Erle Halliburton ...

[Peter Pan]

Write a letter to Cheney that you're behind his *Culture of De-Regulation* Energy Task Force responsible for loss of jobs and every environmental disaster since Erle Halliburton ...

Cheney is long gone, what is going on is on Obama, he is killing jobs not creating them and the new EPA is a real jobs killer:hi:

[Exotix]

Cheney is long gone, what is going on is on Obama, he is killing jobs not creating them and the new EPA is a real jobs killer

:hi:

Yes ?
Do you have a Will graph to support your claims ?

[Peter Pan]

Yes ?
Do you have a Will graph to support your claims ?

The unions are gospel here and if they say jobs are going to be killed, it has to be correct, but then Obama is on the golf course today, maybe he is golfing with the head of the Union who visits the White House weekly:rofl:

[Exotix]

The unions are gospel here and if they say jobs are going to be killed, it has to be correct, but then Obama is on the golf course today, maybe he is golfing with the head of the Union who visits the White House weekly:rofl:

In other words you're rambling in incoherence because that's what the entire right-wing agenda since Bush/Cheney tells you to do ...

Got it.

:seeya:

[thkauffman]

In other words you're rambling in incoherence because that's what the entire right-wing agenda since Bush/Cheney tells you to do ...

Got it.

:seeya:

Irony, thy name is Exotix.

Still can't make a coherent or relevant post to save you, I see.

[Peter Pan]

Irony, thy name is Exotix.

Still can't make a coherent or relevant post to save you, I see.

Diversion is all he knows, even the libs unions are now telling Obama he is or will kill jobs, what a surprise for the community man

[ChasC5]

Cheney is long gone, what is going on is on Obama, he is killing jobs not creating them and the new EPA is a real jobs killer:hi:

The current De-regulation was put in place by who? :confused5:

[Exotix]

Irony, thy name is Exotix.

Still can't make a coherent or relevant post to save you, I see.

Since way before Enron where Cheney is always involved ... BP is the primary example of why you have govt. and the EPA ...

Because MMS was blackmailed, bribed and corrupted, Cheney was able to do substandard cement work and prevent a blow-out valve installed/working ...

This resulted in tragedy/murder on a state of the art oil tapping rig and costs exceeding $20 Billion dollars for the BP cabal and costs to states for emergencies to include cancer causing issues to the population ... to save a paltry 1/2 million dollars for Cheney ...

So build nuclear power plants as cheap as you can anywhere you can ... the Republicans are in charge, not Obama ...

Yeah uh huh ... :seeya:

[ChasC5]

I think the intelligent people on both the Left and Right is seeing this for what it really is; a Political Payback for the GOP. :yesnod:

[Exotix]

I think the intelligent people on both the Left and Right is seeing this for what it really is; a Political Payback for the GOP. :yesnod:

I'm still waiting for Will graphs instead of thread hijack babble ..

:seeya:

[thkauffman]

I'm still waiting for Will graphs instead of thread hijack babble ..

:seeya:

Irony, thy name is Exotix.

You're the one still bringing up BUSHCHENEYHALLIBURTON.

[Exotix]

Irony, thy name is Exotix.

You're the one still bringing up BUSHCHENEYHALLIBURTON.

That's nothing ... some of the conservative wacko websites and forums are now calling the Japan holocaust as Obamas' fault ... (it's no coincidence that all the natural and un-natrual disasters (BP) are happening on Obamas' watch ... )

... man o man ... http://i51.tinypic.com/avhd37.gif

[ChasC5]

That's nothing ... some of the conservative wacko websites and forums are now calling the Japan holocaust as Obamas' fault ... (it's no coincidence that all the natural and un-natrual disasters (BP) are happening on Obamas' watch ... )

... man o man ... http://i51.tinypic.com/avhd37.gif

:rofl:No wonder they are called Wacko's :rofl:

[Peter Pan]

That's nothing ... some of the conservative wacko websites and forums are now calling the Japan holocaust as Obamas' fault ... (it's no coincidence that all the natural and un-natrual disasters (BP) are happening on Obamas' watch ... )

... man o man ... http://i51.tinypic.com/avhd37.gif

Like everything was Bush's fault, now everything is Obama's fault:hi:

[ChasC5]

Like everything was Bush's fault, now everything is Obama's fault:hi:


You give us the prosperous days during the Clinton Administration
We'll give you the creation of debt and War during the Bush Administration
You give us the mess clean up during the Obama Administration (Only 25 Months)


:cheers:

[Exotix]

Like everything was Bush's fault, now everything is Obama's fault
:hi:

About time the whole lot of you admitted your whole ODS shtick is only for getting revenge on the world for your messiah Bush ... sad.

[thkauffman]

That's nothing ... some of the conservative wacko websites and forums are now calling the Japan holocaust as Obamas' fault ... (it's no coincidence that all the natural and un-natrual disasters (BP) are happening on Obamas' watch ... )

... man o man ... http://i51.tinypic.com/avhd37.gif

Please link us up.

If you're gonna spew stupid accusations, be prepared to back 'em up.

I'm sure those sites are really mainstream, too.

[Peter Pan]

You give us the prosperous days during the Clinton Administration
We'll give you the creation of debt and War during the Bush Administration
You give us the mess clean up during the Obama Administration (Only 25 Months)


:cheers:

Welfare reform and cutting one million from the military
Balanced budget was with Reps controlling 2/3 of law making
The mess you speak of started when the libs took control of 2/3 of law making and the current community organizer is spending us into the next Greece:rofl:

[ChasC5]

Welfare reform and cutting one million from the military
Balanced budget was with Reps controlling 2/3 of law making
The mess you speak of started when the libs took control of 2/3 of law making and the current community organizer is spending us into the next Greece:rofl:

I'm sure you'll post the data to back that up. :yesnod:

[Peter Pan]

I'm sure you'll post the data to back that up. :yesnod:

Google it yourself and report back

[ChasC5]

Google it yourself and report back

:owned::seeya: