Jeffrey Immelt Receives Special Environmental Benefits From Friendship With Obama

The Obama administration is making Congress irrelevant. With cap and trade held up in the Senate, unable to get the 60 votes needed for passage, Obama is pushing cap and trade through executive orders and bureaucratic processes. This without a doubt is another example of Obama's soft tyranny. Oh but it gets better.

As we know with the Obamacare healthcare law, friends of Obama are often exempted from following Obama's rules through special favors. We are now discovering that to be true with Obama's cap and trade rules, which were never approved by Congress. It appears Obama friend and ally, as well as probably the largest outsourcer of American jobs, Jeffry Immelt an General Electric will not be forced into following carbon limits established by the Obama administration. Tell me you are surprised by this?

About the same time Immelt and GE got the extension, Obama announced Immelt would head up Obama's new job council. Remember this guy is responsible for outsourcing thousands and thousands of American jobs while receiving bailout money that was given to protect jobs in America.

Last month, the Obama EPA began enforcing new rules regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from any new or expanded power plants.

This week, the EPA issued its first exemption, Environment & Energy News reports:

The Obama administration will spare a stalled power plant project in California from the newest federal limits on greenhouse gases and conventional air pollution, U.S. EPA says in a new court filing that marks a policy shift in the face of industry groups and Republicans accusing the agency of holding up construction of large industrial facilities.

According to a declaration by air chief Gina McCarthy, officials reviewed EPA policies and decided it was appropriate to "grandfather" projects such as the Avenal Power Center, a proposed 600-megawatt power plant in the San Joaquin Valley, so they are exempted from rules such as new air quality standards for smog-forming nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

There's something interesting about the Avenal Power Center:

The proposed Avenal Energy project will be a combined-cycle generating plant consisting of two natural gas-fired General Electric 7FA Gas Turbines with Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) and one General Electric Steam Turbine.