Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/14/2008 5:14:18 PM PST by Lorianne
The fate of scores of new coal-burning power plants is now in limbo over whether to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
The uncertainty resulted when an Environmental Protection Agency appeals panel on Thursday rejected a federal permit for a Utah plant, leaving the issue for the Obama administration to resolve.
The panel said the EPA's Denver office failed to adequately support its decision to issue a permit for the Bonanza plant without requiring controls on carbon dioxide, the leading pollutant linked to global warming.
The matter was sent back to that office, which must better explain why it failed to order limits on carbon dioxide. This is "an issue of national scope that has implications far beyond this individual permitting process," the panel said.
EPA spokesman Jonathan Shrader said the agency was reviewing the ruling by the appeals panel, which traditionally gives great deference to agency decisions.
Environmentalists and lawyers representing industry groups said the ruling puts in question permits — some being considered, others approved but under appeal — of perhaps as many as 100 coal plants.
"It's going to stop everything while EPA mulls over what to do next" about how the federal Clean Air Act is to be used to control carbon dioxide, said David Bookbinder, a Sierra Club lawyer. "And that will be decided by the next administration."
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Wait until electricity prices go higher than Gas prices because of BO. That is where his riots in the streets will come form.
This country is out of its friggin mind.
I guarantee you OPEC pays off our politicians.
We are so screwed.
Someone should cut power to all EPA offices.
Republican and Dem presidents may come and go, but most gov’t employees are utopian socialists.
Campaign contributions came from OPEC, UAE, Saudi, China, PLO and on and on.
How much green house gas emissions could we eliminate, if we just eliminated illegal aliens and envirowhacks? How many fewer power plants would we need? How much gas would we save?
Not waste them, by any means; more like Soylent Green, so we get some useful return out of them.
There has NEVER been a DemocRat decision or program that worked.
No coal plants...
They produce 49% of our electricity,
No Nuke plants...
They produce 19% of our electricity,
You see the strategy here right?
Those who control the keys to energy, control the keys to production.
It's supremely hard to combat this crap when their incorrect premise is almost universally accepted. Carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant, but a naturally occurring gas. We have to contest their premises, or we will get nowhere.
Our country is bent on committing national suicide.
This is sheer insanity.
I expect to see someday that the government will mandate euthanasia for it’s citizens because they emit a “pollutant” called carbon dioxide.
I can see 1,000,000 coal miners, loggers, oil field roustabouts and workers and others marching on DC with murder in their eyes. (I HOPE)
THe population ‘growth’ in the US, over the last two decades would beon par with JApan, if were not for the Invasion from Mexico.
Even the Serria Club has noted this. By 2070 (one generation from now), the population of Japan will be at pre-WWII levels, as would ours.
S, you want a smaller population made mostly of whiny baby boomers or a robust population willing to work - ya, it would mean cutting all welfare, but that ain’t gonna happen.
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