White House stands by job killing EPA rules

The Hill:
President Obama’s advisers will recommend that he veto pending House legislation that would block two key Environmental Protection Agency air-pollution rules, a White House official said.
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The House is slated to vote later this week on a GOP-led measure that would mandate new interagency analyses of the cumulative economic effects of several EPA rules.
The bill would delay completion of upcoming mercury standards for power plants until at least six months after the interagency panel’s final report in August of 2012.

It would also delay a recently finalized EPA rule to cut power plant emissions that blow across state lines and worsen smog and particulate pollution, a measure called the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
The White House threat to veto the bill — called the “Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act” — is the latest signal from the administration that it will battle GOP efforts to scuttle a suite of EPA rules.
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The House should just refuse to appropriate money for the EPA to enforce the rules.  Obama can't veto that and it should stop the job killing regulations.

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