Examining the Social Cost of Carbon
Posted on 09/19/2013 8:16:28 PM PDT by TexGrill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming.
The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy. It's also a key step in President Barack Obama's global warming plans, because it would help end what he called "the limitless dumping of carbon pollution" from power plants.
Although the proposed rule won't immediatedly affect plants already operating, it eventually would force the government to limit emissions from the existing power plant fleet, which accounts for a third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Obama has given the Environmental Protection Agency until next summer to propose those regulations.
The EPA provided The Associated Press with details of the proposal prior to the official announcement, which was expected Friday morning. The public will have a chance to comment on the rule before it becomes final.
Despite some tweaks, the rule packs the same punch as one announced last year, which was widely criticized by industry and Republicans as effectively banning any new coal projects in the U.S.
That's because to meet the standard, new coal-fired power plants would need to install expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide and bury it underground. No coal-fired power plant has done that yet, in large part because of the cost. And those plants that the EPA points to as potential models, such as a coal plant being built in Kemper County, Miss., by Southern Co., have received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and tax credits.
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Completely impractical nonsense that will kill one of the USA’s key competitive advantages, cheap energy.
I think ‘rats produce WAY too much CO2. they need to have their CO2 production stifled...for Gaia.
Yeah, let’s not use an energy resource we have 1,000 years worth of reserves in.
to meet the standard, new coal-fired power plants would need to install expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide and bury it underground.
Burying a Gas Underground? This certainly has been Jaw Dropper Week!
what's going to happen to all these coal towns?
Examining the Social Cost of Carbon
Obamama, Gore et al should be arrested for perpetrating world greatest scam and extortion scheme.
“Global warming” or “Climate change” is pure hoax.
We are getting 99% of energy from SUN, aaaaand are on the mercy of SUNs sunspot cycles. Human activity contributes nothing to “change”. See the differences day/night, summer/winter.
What’s next? Obama pissing in the ocean and causing “Global Flooding”??? Oh yeah, tax it!
Food stamps, AFDC, gubmint cheese, WIC, Section 8, whatever . . .
The eco-criminals Clown Prince nobama and Mega-Idiot loser algore should be in prison for their crimes against fact and logic.
There were enough people who voted for obama in coal states that he only had to cheat by a few percent. I’d love to know what they’re thinking.
Everything obama does is to hurt the country. I simply can’t understand why so many people are helping him. It’s pure evil.
Sorry Dina, that is not what it will do at all.
are those archaic laws against extortion still on the books.... after the past five years?
who’s grand scheme is Burying Carbon Dioxide? can that even BE DONE?
Obama...is pissing into the wind
from a coal-dependent past....... into a Gubment Dependent Future?
this is “pure” insanity...
ahaha theyre calling it “CARBON SEQUESTRATION”
Ping.
Not in WV, he did not carry a single county. During the primary he was second to a felon serving time in Texas, in several counties.
I forgot about WV. But he got enough votes in Ohio and Penn.
Do the Global Warming True Believers understand that every time they exhale, they are polluting? I wish they would stop adding pollution to our air!
the rule packs the same punch as one announced last year, which was widely criticized by industry and Republicans as effectively banning any new coal projects in the U.S.
Still fighting a battle from over a century ago against the robber barons. The Progressives haven't figured out in six generations that they themselves benefit from industry and that the evil people who are trying to dominate the world and rob the wealth of productive people are now Democrats, not industrialists and Republicans.
I'm sure that phrase has been properly focus-group-tested. The tricky part is getting the proles to really believe it rains harder because the carbon pollution absorbed a photon that melted some ice that rose the seas that tipped over an island somewhere.
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