And shouldnt be to our Gov Dave( if it is -i dont know what hole his head has been in for all these yrs)
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"We're certainly not anti-development by any means. But we do understand the need to have responsible development," Abbey said Wednesday.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal, who accompanied Abbey during his visit, has been saying for years that Congress should develop a way to regulate carbon dioxide emissions to provide more market predictability for Wyoming coal.
No such bill has passed. Until that happens, Freudenthal said Wednesday, the high-level Interior Department officials holding up the leases need to make sure they're sold.
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Isnt the new Obamy Epa laws making co2 a pollutant enough Dave? Do we need your partys cap & trade laws to cripple us more?
Your party buds in Dc have already changed many laws, regs, & policys here to hurt us - costing us jobs & money & making it harder to do business... we need more?
I think dave was a lawyer or something for the billy clintoon administration...( not a friend or friendly to this state or our ppls intrests either.)
Cant say i have been very involved in poltices much of my life over the yrs- national or local.
But i do know how most of the leftwing radical groups vote... the weatherman/bomber types,Nbpp, peta, various anti hunting & fireams groups, various envromental/animal rights groups including all those bringing law suits & even more so now -here- with bobo,s & there friends help.
Il just call them gov daves, & bobos & billys leftwing radical big D party ( local or otherwise)- with all its various nutjobs, left wing greenie, peta , Elf wackos groups & groupies-i think it all comes as a big package- and that shouldnt suprize dave or anyone else - imo thats what & who makes up there partys ranks & its followers & its agendas.
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Feb 23, 2009
... Obama's climate czar said the
EPA will soon publish proposed
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E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide and Other Heat-Trapping ...
Feb 20, 2009
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EPA deems that
CO2 is indeed a dangerous
pollutant, it would be
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pollutant that
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Automobile Emissions: An Overview
... The Clean Air Act of 1970 gave
EPA broad authority to
regulate motor
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www.epa.gov/oms/consumer/05-autos.pdf
EPA: Greenhouse Gases a Health Hazard; Regulation Coming - TIME
It's official: the Obama administration today declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health, which will allow the agency to use the Clean Air Act to
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Bush Administration: Carbon Dioxide Not a Pollutant
Aug 29, 2003
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http://trib.com/news/state-and-regio...3af5e315c.html
Environmentalists urge congressional leaders to look beyond offshore drilling issues
Environmentalists: Don't overlook onshore drilling
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press writer |
Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:45 am |
.CHEYENNE -- Dozens of environmental groups large and small are urging congressional leaders not to overlook onshore drilling amid debate over how to prevent another oil spill like the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Drilling for oil and gas often occurs in residential areas, yet it uses large volumes of toxic chemicals and creates large amounts of toxic waste, Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and others wrote in a letter Wednesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The groups want more onshore drilling regulation to accompany new rules offshore.
"Although onshore incidents may not make national headlines, communities across the United States regularly experience tragic incidents of their own," they wrote.
Drinking water contamination, air pollution, well blowouts and spills have been happening onshore within the past few months, they said.
Giving more oversight to the federal regulators who failed to prevent the Gulf disaster would be a bad idea, said an industry group, the Western Energy Alliance.
"It doesn't make sense to take more control away from state oil and gas regulators and give it to the federal agency that just oversaw the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of our nation," Marc Smith, executive director of the alliance, said Friday.
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Industry says federal delays curb planning process
Threat to Wyoming coal production?
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press writer |
Saturday, July 17, 2010 1:45 am |
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CHEYENNE -- Wyoming's coal industry says long delays obtaining new reserves is making it difficult to plan for the future and could take a bite out of production if the government doesn't act soon.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has been taking longer than expected to sell new federal reserves in the Powder River Basin, the nation's top coal-producing region. Some lease auctions planned last year have yet to be held.
Coal companies typically plan years in advance to expand their surface mines. That's because such expansions require substantial investments in things like house-sized dump trucks and railroad tracks.
While the Powder River Basin mines aren't imminently going to run out of coal, uncertainty makes planning for future investments difficult, said Marion Loomis, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association.
"In order for us to have a timely development and keep the mines going, you need to have an orderly process that allows for new coal reserves to be leased," Loomis said Friday. "We're nearing a point where the mines are either going to have to curtail production, or they're going to have modify their existing mine plan."
BLM Director Bob Abbey, who visited with coal industry representatives in Gillette this week, said coal is important for providing the nation's energy but the federal coal in Wyoming must be developed responsibly.
He said responsible development includes considering air quality at and downwind from the coal mines. He also said the government must consider how burning coal contributes to climate change by producing carbon dioxide.
"We're certainly not anti-development by any means. But we do understand the need to have responsible development," Abbey said Wednesday.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal, who accompanied Abbey during his visit, has been saying for years that Congress should develop a way to regulate carbon dioxide emissions to provide more market predictability for Wyoming coal.
No such bill has passed. Until that happens, Freudenthal said Wednesday, the high-level Interior Department officials holding up the leases need to make sure they're sold.
"These leases should proceed because they recognize that coal is going to be part of the equation no matter what they do," the governor said.
Wyoming's 19 surface coal mines produced 464 million tons of coal last year, about 40 percent of U.S. coal production, according to the Energy Information Administration.
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regio...e5b4e2c9c.html
Oil, gas, coal etc production hindered by Dc democrates- no big suprize to me
