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U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) conducts his weekly news briefing December 17, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House is scheduled to vote on the nearly $700 billion tax package today and the $1.1 trillion spending bill, which will keep the government runs through September, 2016, tomorrow. (Photo by

Paul Ryan’s Omnibus Budget Surrenders to EPA Radicals

Paul Ryan’s decision to remove critical riders from the Omnibus budget bill that intended to stop the EPA’s radical and statutorily unauthorized new rules that could devastate America’s coal and farming industries is just the most recent version of the GOP white flag. A vote on the Omnibus budget deal is imminent in the House, now that it has passed the companion tax bill.

A bulldozer works a coal mound at the Appalachian Electric Power coal-fired Big Sandy Power Plant June 3, 2014 in Cattletsburg, Kentucky. New regulations on carbon emissions proposed by the Obama administration have reportedly angered politicians on both sides of the aisle in energy-producing states such as Kentucky and West Virginia.

EPA Coal Rule Skirts Law: 10 Percent of Comments From Obama’s OFA

But while the EPA itself causes actual pollution, it’s also attempting to subvert the administrative law rule-making process. Political insiders are working to generate millions of astroturfed comments from Barack Obama’s former Presidential campaign operation, now called Organizing for America, and left wing environmental groups. The latest instance of this propaganda operation was seen in the rule making process that resulted in the recently finalized “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” rule.