Obama EPAs Rules Are 38 Times Longer Than the Bible - Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed and promulgated numerous regulations regarding pollution control, a report from the Congressional Research Service observes. How numerous? The EPA has issued 2,827 new final regulations, taking up 24,915 pages in the Federal Register, totaling an estimated 24,915,000 words, according to an analysis by CNS News. The Gutenberg Bible, published in two volumes in 1455, contains 1,282 pages and 646,128 words. So the new EPA regulations issued by the Obama administration contain about 19 times as many pages and 38 times as many words as the Bible. The EPA regulations also have 22 times as many words as the entire seven-book Harry Potter series, and 5,484 times as many words as the U.S. Constitution, CNS News calculated. The regulations cover greenhouse gases, air quality, emissions, hazardous substances, and other topics. CNS pointed out that in addition to final rules, the Federal Register publishes proposed rules, notices, interim rules, corrections, and drafts of final rules. The analysis considers only final rules from the EPA, which include the likes of Revised Steam Electric Effluent Limitations Guidelines. Critics of the EPA have reacted strongly to the deluge of new regulations, the Congressional Research Service noted. Many, both within Congress and outside of it, have accused the agency of reaching beyond the authority given it by Congress and ignoring or underestimating the costs and economic impacts of proposed and promulgated rules. The CRS report acknowledged that environmental groups and other supporters of the agency disagree that EPA has overreached.” In several cases, environmental advocates would like the regulatory actions to be stronger. But the report also noted that The Wall Street Journal has charged that the EPA has turned a regulatory fire hose on U.S. business. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called the EPAs actions a series of one-sided, politically charged regulations that are intended to take the place of legislation that cannot achieve a consensus in Congress.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:30:34 +0000
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