Obama CONTINUES to legislate around the Congress and the around the will of the American People

More evidence is that Obama continues to try to legislate around the Congress and use any corrupt method to get what HE wants....The Federal Government is OUT OF CONTROL under Obama's leadership...He has to go in 2012, unless there's a way we can impeach him before!

EPA Fires Back in Carbon War

“This is a war now. We now know that the EPA won’t quit and the president won’t stop them. But Congress won’t quit either. We’re going to have to fight this out.”

-- Aide to a Democratic House member talking to Power Play about a new move by the EPA to crack down on energy producers.

Energy suppliers are warning of brownouts and serious job losses as the EPA pushes ahead with an effort to crack down on coal-fired power plants.

The new regulations issued Thursday will dramatically increase the existing regulations on potential contaminants released by burning coal, including mercury.

The energy industry says that the levels are far below the point at which human harm is a concern and that the new rules are part of an effort by the agency to make the use of coal unaffordable. Industry leaders say that this is an effort to enforce previously defeated global warming regulations by another means.

Utilities have already begun to shut down coal-fired plants, which make up about half of the nation’s energy supply, in advance of the new regulations. That means hardship in the job-short Rust Belt but also fewer sources of power for the energy-short East Coast.

“If these regulations go into full implementation, you’ll see rolling brownouts in the summer months within the next few years,” said one coal-industry executive to Power Play. “This means the lights going out in Manhattan.”

While a long legal fight will rage over the new regulations, Congress is now looking for a way to clamp down on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson right now.

In 2010, Jackson was defeated in her bid to regulate carbon dioxide outright when a bipartisan group of lawmakers threatened to strip the agency of the authority to set global warming standards.

But with the administration looking to make an end-around play, lawmakers on both parties are threatening a more serious consequence – massive funding cuts for the agency until Jackson drops her effort.

While President Obama could veto any such slashing, Jackson’s move sets up an unpleasant political battle in swing states crucial to the president’s re-election effort, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri.