Where do these lawsuits ever get traction? The 'idea' regulation is harmful to the economy is hideous. Upholding laws like the Clear Air Act reduces costs unless of course health care is not important to legislators and attorney generals.
28 states filed a lawsuit based on political hubris. How much did this cost as far as salaries and time and government infrastructure that supports these lawsuits? Taking the cost of these lawsuits and realizing that is multiplied by 28 is enormous. These are political costs.
The stupidity of these lawsuits is indescribable. How are states up and down wind from polluters going to end the pollution? Pollution as it crosses state border after state border ACCUMULATES so each state exposed to the pollution is greater than the state before. Unless there is a new law of physics I know nothing about this use of public funds can easily be proven as abuse of power used for political purposes.
The citizens of these states have every right to know...no...are obligated to be educated to the fact their state officials are using their state's treasury to support their political ambitions.
Governors of these states do nothing to reign in this abuse of power by their Attorney Generals? Oh.
To realize the complete cost and abuse of the taxpayer 'public trust' one has to also add the costs of the EPA to respond to these lawsuits. The costs are huge.
Apr. 29, 2014
WASHINGTON - The question (click here) was who should pay for air pollution that crosses state lines. The answer, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, is blowing in the wind.
States in the Midwest and South whose polluted air flows north and east must comply with a federally imposed solution, a 6-2 majority of justices ruled.
The decision, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and joined by two of the court's conservatives, was a boon for the Obama administration and its environmental regulators. They had required 28 upwind states to slash ozone and fine particle emissions from power plants because of their downwind effects.
Most of those states had rebelled against the solution, and a federal appeals court sided with them in 2012. But the justices reversed the lower court's ruling.
The case focuses on air currents miles overhead but has down-to-earth consequences. The Environmental Protection Agency blames exposure to ozone and fine particles in the air for one in 20 deaths in the United States, 90,000 hospital admissions, 200,000 non-fatal heart attacks and 2.5 million cases of aggravated asthma.
Given the depth of the problem, the court majority concluded that the EPA chose a sensible solution -- basing required reductions in pollutants that cause soot and smog on the least costly means available. That puts an added burden on states that have done less in the past to control their power plant pollution....
Lungs, like livers and kidneys are one way streets. A human being is born with the cells they will die with. There is some regeneration with livers, but, not kidneys or lungs. The regeneration of the liver happens over time, but, is not like healing from a skin injury.
What was that I said about Mayors and Councils from a previous entry about the safety of citizens?
The work of the American Lung Association is invaluable for those that actually value life's potential of longevity.
American Lung Association gives Fort Collins an 'F' for high ozone, 'A' for low particle pollution (click here)
By Deb Stanley
April 30, 2014
DENVER - The American Lung Association has mixed news about the air in Fort Collins.
The group says Fort Collins has the 22nd most polluted air in the country, however, the group also named Fort Collins to its list of Cleanest U.S. Cities for Short-term Particle Pollution.
The listings are in the 15th annual State of the Air report.
Fort Collins got an 'F' for high ozone days, but an 'A' for particle pollution over a 24-hour period.
Particle pollution is "a pollutant recently found to cause lung cancer, poor air quality remains a significant public health concern and a changing climate threatens to make it harder to protect human health," according to the Lung Association....
It isn't like the USA doesn't have ground ozone regulations. It does and has.
40 CFR Parts 50 and 58
National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (click here)
Final Rule Federal Register
Vol. 73, No. 60
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Rules and Regulations [[Page 16436]]
Well, looky thar. HUMAN ACTIVITY. I'll be darn.
O3 even has the same shape of CO2. Interesting, isn't it? Actually CO2 is more straight than that. The bond angles on CO2 are 180 degrees, O3 is 120 degrees. H2O has 104.45 degrees.
See, the bond angles are created by the electron field of the atoms that comprise the molecules/compound. The angles CONTRIBUTE to the ability of compounds/molecules to INTERACT with other chemicals. Heat or in the case of sunlight, the 'agitation' of the molecules create 03 as a danger to lungs. People end up breathing the darn stuff.
But, the CO2 issue is the fact it has a 180 degree bond angle. Not a darn thing can be done about it EXCEPT to trim production of it through limiting human activity. The 180 bond angle makes it nearly impossible to break it down outside of plant metabolism. Plant, VEGETATION, not industrial. The electronic field of CO2 is very stable when it is found in the air.
Yep.
I don't make up the rules, god does.
...But the ozone that is a byproduct of certain human activities (click here) does become a problem at ground level and this is what we think of as 'bad' ozone. With increasing populations, more automobiles, and more industry, there's more ozone in the lower atmosphere. Since 1900 the amount of ozone near the earth's surface has more than doubled. Unlike most other air pollutants, ozone is not directly emitted from any one source. Tropospheric ozone is formed by the interaction of sunlight, particularly ultraviolet light, with hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, which are emitted by automobiles, gasoline vapors, fossil fuel power plants, refineries, and certain other industries....
28 states filed a lawsuit based on political hubris. How much did this cost as far as salaries and time and government infrastructure that supports these lawsuits? Taking the cost of these lawsuits and realizing that is multiplied by 28 is enormous. These are political costs.
The stupidity of these lawsuits is indescribable. How are states up and down wind from polluters going to end the pollution? Pollution as it crosses state border after state border ACCUMULATES so each state exposed to the pollution is greater than the state before. Unless there is a new law of physics I know nothing about this use of public funds can easily be proven as abuse of power used for political purposes.
The citizens of these states have every right to know...no...are obligated to be educated to the fact their state officials are using their state's treasury to support their political ambitions.
Governors of these states do nothing to reign in this abuse of power by their Attorney Generals? Oh.
To realize the complete cost and abuse of the taxpayer 'public trust' one has to also add the costs of the EPA to respond to these lawsuits. The costs are huge.
WASHINGTON - The question (click here) was who should pay for air pollution that crosses state lines. The answer, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, is blowing in the wind.
States in the Midwest and South whose polluted air flows north and east must comply with a federally imposed solution, a 6-2 majority of justices ruled.
The decision, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and joined by two of the court's conservatives, was a boon for the Obama administration and its environmental regulators. They had required 28 upwind states to slash ozone and fine particle emissions from power plants because of their downwind effects.
Most of those states had rebelled against the solution, and a federal appeals court sided with them in 2012. But the justices reversed the lower court's ruling.
The case focuses on air currents miles overhead but has down-to-earth consequences. The Environmental Protection Agency blames exposure to ozone and fine particles in the air for one in 20 deaths in the United States, 90,000 hospital admissions, 200,000 non-fatal heart attacks and 2.5 million cases of aggravated asthma.
Given the depth of the problem, the court majority concluded that the EPA chose a sensible solution -- basing required reductions in pollutants that cause soot and smog on the least costly means available. That puts an added burden on states that have done less in the past to control their power plant pollution....
Lungs, like livers and kidneys are one way streets. A human being is born with the cells they will die with. There is some regeneration with livers, but, not kidneys or lungs. The regeneration of the liver happens over time, but, is not like healing from a skin injury.
What was that I said about Mayors and Councils from a previous entry about the safety of citizens?
The work of the American Lung Association is invaluable for those that actually value life's potential of longevity.
American Lung Association gives Fort Collins an 'F' for high ozone, 'A' for low particle pollution (click here)
By Deb Stanley
April 30, 2014
DENVER - The American Lung Association has mixed news about the air in Fort Collins.
The group says Fort Collins has the 22nd most polluted air in the country, however, the group also named Fort Collins to its list of Cleanest U.S. Cities for Short-term Particle Pollution.
The listings are in the 15th annual State of the Air report.
Fort Collins got an 'F' for high ozone days, but an 'A' for particle pollution over a 24-hour period.
Particle pollution is "a pollutant recently found to cause lung cancer, poor air quality remains a significant public health concern and a changing climate threatens to make it harder to protect human health," according to the Lung Association....
It isn't like the USA doesn't have ground ozone regulations. It does and has.
40 CFR Parts 50 and 58
National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (click here)
Final Rule Federal Register
Vol. 73, No. 60
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Rules and Regulations [[Page 16436]]
Well, looky thar. HUMAN ACTIVITY. I'll be darn.
O3 even has the same shape of CO2. Interesting, isn't it? Actually CO2 is more straight than that. The bond angles on CO2 are 180 degrees, O3 is 120 degrees. H2O has 104.45 degrees.
See, the bond angles are created by the electron field of the atoms that comprise the molecules/compound. The angles CONTRIBUTE to the ability of compounds/molecules to INTERACT with other chemicals. Heat or in the case of sunlight, the 'agitation' of the molecules create 03 as a danger to lungs. People end up breathing the darn stuff.
But, the CO2 issue is the fact it has a 180 degree bond angle. Not a darn thing can be done about it EXCEPT to trim production of it through limiting human activity. The 180 bond angle makes it nearly impossible to break it down outside of plant metabolism. Plant, VEGETATION, not industrial. The electronic field of CO2 is very stable when it is found in the air.Yep.
I don't make up the rules, god does.
...But the ozone that is a byproduct of certain human activities (click here) does become a problem at ground level and this is what we think of as 'bad' ozone. With increasing populations, more automobiles, and more industry, there's more ozone in the lower atmosphere. Since 1900 the amount of ozone near the earth's surface has more than doubled. Unlike most other air pollutants, ozone is not directly emitted from any one source. Tropospheric ozone is formed by the interaction of sunlight, particularly ultraviolet light, with hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, which are emitted by automobiles, gasoline vapors, fossil fuel power plants, refineries, and certain other industries....
