Posted on 12/06/2018 6:52:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Environmental Protection Agency acted again Thursday to ease rules on the sagging U.S. coal industry, this time scaling back what would have been a tough control on climate-changing emissions from any new coal plants.
The latest Trump administration targeting of legacy Obama administration efforts to slow climate change comes in the wake of multiplying warnings from the agency’s scientists and others about the accelerating pace of global warming.
In a ceremony Thursday at the agency, acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a proposal to dismantle a 2015 rule that any new coal power plants include cutting-edge techniques to capture the carbon dioxide from their smokestacks.
Wheeler called the Obama rules “excessive burdens” for the coal industry.
“This administration cares about action and results, not talks and wishful thinking,” Wheeler said.
Asked about the harm that coal plant emission do people and the environment, Wheeler responded, “Having cheap electricity helps human health.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Climate Changing Coal? Never heard of it.
Oh look here come a Judge ,D’oh
the war on coal is over:
6 Dec: Heartland Institute: PRESS RELEASE: Solidarity, Heartland Institute Sign Historic Climate Communique at COP24
By James Taylor, Jim Lakely
Polish labor union that stood up to the Soviet Bloc and changed the world joins Heartland on front lines of resistance to climate alarmism
KATOWICE, POLAND (December 6, 2018) – The Heartland Institute and representatives of Solidarity, the historic labor union founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa that helped bring down the Iron Curtain, signed a joint statement on Wednesday calling on the United Nations at COP24 to ensure the “restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ideological dogma at the United Nations.”
The statement also made clear that none of the signatories oppose “the goal of clean air nor supports the elimination of coal from the world’s energy portfolio.”...
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-solidarity-heartland-institute-sign-historic-climate-communique-at-cop24
LOL! They wouldn’t be editorializing the reporting, would they? They’re so biased, they don’t even know they’re biased.
Joke title or joke news organization?
More coal in my stocking!
Good enough to say both, although of course the screedwriter(s) in question will always say “neither”.
Wonderful! Another person in the Trump Administration willing to state the obvious to those who have no clue.
Ass Press == FAKE News
Forget about “carbon dioxide” gases being discharged from coal-fired plants (they will have modern scrubbers for other elements in the smoke that could be hazardous to health.
What is needed is modern technology to “capture” naturally occurring minerals/metals in coal as it is being burned, such as lead, arsenic, copper, etc. That can be a non-political goalwhich would allow American technology to address (which they are) and existing problem and help reduce any health threat it presents.
CO2 is necessary for life. Period. We can try to limit some CO2 production but it is not as dangerous as lead and arsenic in water, food, and the air.
Time to get our environmental priorities straightened out.
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The AP made it up, of course. Old hippie AP editors telling young snowflake reporters what to write.
Ask for it by name. It's the only brand I burn!
Really?
I'm seeing increased use of the Snow Blower and the snow shovel "library" this early Winter.
Sure, you have. It changes the climate in millions of homes and businesses.
This warms my heart and my house as well.
The people and politicians who waged war on coal will never be brought to account for all the lost jobs and increased energy burdens placed on Americans, but...it is never too late to stop digging a hole.
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