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New Biden climate rules could shutter remaining American coal plants
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | April 26, 2024 | Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport

Posted on 04/26/2024 9:01:24 AM PDT by packagingguy

The Biden administration on Thursday placed the final cornerstone of its plan to tackle climate change: a regulation that would force the nation’s coal-fired power plants to virtually eliminate the planet-warming pollution they release into the air or shut down.

The regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90% of their greenhouse pollution by 2039, one year earlier than the agency had initially proposed. The compressed timeline was welcomed by climate activists but condemned by coal executives who said the new standards would be impossible to meet...

Taken together, the regulations could deliver a death blow in the United States to coal, the fuel that powered the country for much of the last century but has caused global environmental damage. When burned, coal emits more carbon dioxide than any other fuel source.

The new rules regarding power plants come weeks after the administration’s other major climate regulations to limit emissions from cars and large trucks in a way that is designed to speed the adoption of electric vehicles. Transportation and electric power are the two largest sources in the United States of the carbon pollution that is driving climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appeasement; biden; climatechange; coal; economy; energy; regulations
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Isn't it grand to be able to take a wrecking ball to the economy without a vote from Congress?

And we will all drive electric cars but won't have the electricity to charge them.

Seems like a great idea!

1 posted on 04/26/2024 9:01:24 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Democrats are always screaming about Trump would be a dictator if he were elected. Biden has done more unconstitutional acts than all previous Presidents combined.


2 posted on 04/26/2024 9:04:00 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Dementia ain't just a river in Egypt. )
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To: packagingguy

Biden campaigned on completely eliminating fossil fuels.
He’s doing it.


3 posted on 04/26/2024 9:04:11 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Are any of the industries under attack by this regime attempting to defend their interests?


4 posted on 04/26/2024 9:06:58 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: packagingguy
Friedrich von Hayek warned about centrally-planned socialist economies in "The Road to Serfdom." What he warned about is brought to life by these arseholes. We are so doomed.
5 posted on 04/26/2024 9:08:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: packagingguy

More ‘work’ from Biden, aka SockPuppet of The Demons.


6 posted on 04/26/2024 9:08:25 AM PDT by lee martell
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You won’t have power for ANYTHING at night or during the multi-day wind droughts. And for the few hours the power is on, you won’t be able to afford it.

These bastards have never built anything in their utterly useless lives. All they know how to do is demolish and destroy what generations of hard-working Americans built.


7 posted on 04/26/2024 9:09:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Climate Activists should be dragged out of their cushy plush homes, stripped naked and dropped off into the MIDDLE OF THE WILDERNESS.

Tell them they are on their own. Make them give up everything RIGHT NOW.


8 posted on 04/26/2024 9:11:05 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: packagingguy

“...eliminate the planet-warming pollution...”


Note how this stated as a fact by the Salt Lake Tribune.


9 posted on 04/26/2024 9:12:23 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: packagingguy

The current state of ‘government’ most closely resembles a late mad Roman emperor steering the ship of state based on the condition of their morning’s bowel movement.


10 posted on 04/26/2024 9:12:35 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: OHPatriot

My thoughts exactly.


11 posted on 04/26/2024 9:12:47 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Gene Eric

I worked in the power business 1973 to 2000 and I was utterly appalled at how fast utility executives and directors caved in to the extreme greeniacs. There was hardly any defense of the industry during the non-stop assault on the industry. That politicization drove me out of that industry. It’s gotten much, much worse since I left.

They appeased the crocodiles hoping to be eaten last. Well, here we are at the and all that appeasement didn’t count for diddly squat. The last of the conventional utilities are being eaten.


12 posted on 04/26/2024 9:12:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: packagingguy

Meanwhile, China brings a new coal burning power plant on line every month or so...


13 posted on 04/26/2024 9:16:03 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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> The regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency… <

The Founders set things up so Congress made policy, and the President carried out policy. Now the President makes policy while Congress occupies itself by spending money it doesn’t have.

I miss the old days.


14 posted on 04/26/2024 9:18:06 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Should be repeated 1,000x daily:

CO2 is good plant food !


15 posted on 04/26/2024 9:19:23 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Climate Change is just their failed Global Warming’s new name and it’s a crisis because they want to see the world suffer before they die off


16 posted on 04/26/2024 9:22:27 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Won’t matter if you don’t have the electricity because you won’t have the charging stations anyway and the battery range will be so low you won’t be able to go anywhere faster that an 1800’s wagon train anyway.


17 posted on 04/26/2024 9:22:50 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: hanamizu

That’s journalistic malpractice, but the people who wrote that aren’t really journalists, they’re leftwing propagandists.


18 posted on 04/26/2024 9:23:15 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: OHPatriot

Agree let them lead by example.


19 posted on 04/26/2024 9:24:29 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

More like every three days.


20 posted on 04/26/2024 9:26:24 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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