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6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day
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In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day.
The website allows visitors to find and comment on proposed regulations and related documents published by the U.S. federal government. "Help improve Federal regulations by submitting your comments," the website says.
The thousands of entries run the gamut from meeting notifications to fee schedules to actual rules and proposed rule changes.
In recent days, for example, the EPA posted a proposed rule involving volatile organic compound emissions from architectural coatings: “We are approving a local rule that regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act),” the proposed rule states. “We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.”
Another proposed rule will provide guidance for FDA staff on "enforcement criteria for canned ackee, frozen ackee, and other ackee products that contain hypoglycin A." (Ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica; unripened or inedible portions can be toxic.)
Some of the proposed regulations revise regulations already on the books.
The website also links to a video of a speech President Barack Obama gave at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 7, 2011, in which the president promised to remove “outdated and unnecessary regulations.”
“I've ordered a government-wide review, and if there are rules on the books that are needlessly stifling job creation and economic growth, we will fix them,” the president said.
A number of groups, including the Competitive
Enterprise Institute, expect a rush of new regulations now that
President Obama has won a second term:
CEI expects the EPA to move ahead on delayed rules on everything from greenhouse gas emissions to ozone standards. “Rules from the health care bill and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill will also likely make themselves known in the weeks to come," the group said on its website.
CEI expects the EPA to move ahead on delayed rules on everything from greenhouse gas emissions to ozone standards. “Rules from the health care bill and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill will also likely make themselves known in the weeks to come," the group said on its website.
If it moves, tax it. If it continues to move, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
ReplyDelete--Ronald Reagan
What Well run company wouldn't cut their service employee hours from 40 to 29 (or more likely 20 or 24). And the leeches of society blame the business owner, and not the person responsible for the change they can believe in (Obama) that requires such action. Many business owners 10% ROI has dropped to 2% because of new regulations and compliance costs. Their plans to expand have been shelved indefinitely as a direct cost to ObamaCare.
ReplyDeleteOf course the CBO wasn't allowed to make assumption like this in its model because of dictates by Congress.
It's a new world is 2 20 hour work weeks to avoid additional costs to the business. The latest 2.8 trillion shortfall over 10 years will prove to be woefully short as companies dump healthcare. The model was built assuming nothing will change and states will each have an exchange run by the state responsible to the Federal Government. With 16 states so far rejecting the exchange and medicaid additions additional cost will be added to the Fed. Gov't side of the ledger.
DeleteNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- David Siegel, the CEO who had warned his employees they'd face layoffs if President Obama was re-elected, gave everyone a 5% raise last week instead.
ReplyDeleteSiegel isn't backing off his gloomy predictions for the economy under Obama's second term. But he said his company, Westgate Resorts, had record profitability this year and he wanted to share the success with employees, most of whom had not gotten a raise the year before.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A coal company headed by a prominent Mitt Romney donor has laid off more than 160 workers in response to President Obama's election victory.
DeleteMurray Energy said Friday that it had been "forced" to make the layoffs in response to the bleak prospects for the coal industry during Obama's second term. In a prayer circulated by the company, CEO Robert Murray said Americans had voted "in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom."
"The American people have made their choice. They have decided that America must change its course, away from the principals [sic] of our Founders," Murray said in the prayer, which was delivered in a meeting with staff members earlier this week.
"Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corporation for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build."
Murray cited pending regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency and the possibility of a carbon tax as factors that could lead to the "total destruction of the coal industry by as early as 2030." One hundred and two layoffs are planned for Murray operations in Utah, with 54 from Illinois and seven from West Virginia.
eco Coal officials announce layoffs
DeleteEASTERN KENTUCKY (WYMT) - Around 90 employees are being laid off from the Teco Coal Corporation.
Director of Personnel, Paul Matney, says no mines are shutting down but they are reducing their manpower and staffing, which will reduce some production.
Matney said that the layoffs are at several locations and are the result of the economic conditions of the coal market.
He says more information will be released Friday.
By Ben Wolfgang
DeleteThe Washington Times
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
West Virginia Democrats are “outraged” with President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, which has now cost the jobs of nearly 150 coal miners in the state.
Energy giant Consol announced Tuesday that it will idle its surface mining operations in Mingo County after failing to secure necessary Clean Water Act permits from the EPA.
The Miller Creek surface mine facility has been in operation for decades, and the company had planned to construct the new “King Coal Highway” as part of a reclamation project after mining is complete. Coal mine employees, Consol said, would eventually have been assigned to the highway project, once the coal supplies had been exhausted.
Democrats in the state, already angry with the administration’s “war on coal,” unloaded on the EPA on Tuesday afternoon.
“I am incensed and infuriated that the EPA would intentionally delay the needed permit for a public-private project that would bring so many good jobs and valuable infrastructure to communities that so desperately need them,” West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said in a statement.
Mr. Manchin has been one of the loudest critics of Mr. Obama’s environmental policy. He skipped this year’s Democratic convention, and, in one of his campaign commercials, literally shot a hole through the controversial cap-and-trade bill.
DeleteCoal layoffs by the numbers
Since January first of this year we have reported about 1,300 hundred layoffs in the coal industry.
Here is a breakdown of the numbers from the Arch Coal layoffs.
Arch Coal will begin on August 20th phasing out jobs.
Knott County - 209
Breathitt County - 171
Perry County - 49
The total number of jobs lost is 429.
Then by December 31st of 2013, Arch anticipates another 50 job cuts in Knott County and 14 in Breathitt County.
Four people have already been laid off in Floyd County, bringing the overall total to 497 here in eastern Kentucky.
Yes Mick,
ReplyDeleteThings are looking up for the coal miners who have no other source of employment.