The Patriot Post® · EPA Sets Eyes on Airplane Emissions

It’s a documented fact “green” energy kills birds, but the EPA is looking into whether it should target another type of bird: airplanes. The Washington Examiner reports, “The Environmental Protection Agency this week informed the United Nations aviation program that it had begun investigating whether airplane emissions endangered public health. While that alone doesn’t amount to crafting rules, the ‘endangerment’ finding was a necessary precursor for EPA emissions rules on power plants and cars. The agency said it expects to roll out a notice of proposed rulemaking by April 2015.” Just what we need – more debilitating regulations. The administration recently announced its intention to regulate kitchen appliances, which comes on top of the harshest regulations to be imposed on coal plants yet. All while the global warming hiatus continues. Unfortunately, the costs of complying with environmental rules – an end-run to more statism – gets passed down to us, the consumers. More…