{"id":8285,"date":"2011-09-02T20:16:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2011-09-04T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T23:23:26","slug":"epa-shelves-smog-rules-texas-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8285","title":{"rendered":"EPA Shelves Smog Rules: Texas Off the Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When last we checked the Obama Administration, as part of it&#8217;s ongoing war against (pick one or more) A) Energy, B.) Capitalism, and\/or C.) Texas, had the EPA come up with new emissions rules that would have resulted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agendawise.com\/2011\/08\/the-coming-hazard-you-haven%E2%80%99t-heard-about\/\">Texas power plants having to shutdown before sufficient new capacity was online<\/a>, which would most likely have resulted in rolling blackouts (and probably fatalities) the next time summer came around.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes word that the EPA is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/179357-white-house-shelves-smog-rule-in-huge-defeat-for-green-groups\">backing off on new smog emissions rules<\/a>. Naturally Rick Perry, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the 25 million Texans who&#8217;s A\/C won&#8217;t suddenly shut off when it hits 112\u00b0 in August because some bureaucrat in Washington decreed it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/Texas-regulators-hail-clean-air-surrender-2153544.php\">are pleased<\/a>, while radical environmentalists are outraged.<\/p>\n<p>Score one for the good guys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we checked the Obama Administration, as part of it&#8217;s ongoing war against (pick one or more) A) Energy, B.) Capitalism, and\/or C.) Texas, had the EPA come up with new emissions rules that would have resulted in Texas power plants having to shutdown before sufficient new capacity was online, which would most likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,255,12],"tags":[3,491,64,200,2861],"class_list":["post-8285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-regulation","category-texas","tag-energy-policy","tag-epa","tag-obama","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}