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.
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And we will all drive electric cars but won't have the electricity to charge them.
Seems like a great idea!
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.
Biden campaigned on completely eliminating fossil fuels.
He’s doing it.
Are any of the industries under attack by this regime attempting to defend their interests?
More ‘work’ from Biden, aka SockPuppet of The Demons.
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.
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.
“...eliminate the planet-warming pollution...”
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.
My thoughts exactly.
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.
Meanwhile, China brings a new coal burning power plant on line every month or so...
> 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.
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
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.
That’s journalistic malpractice, but the people who wrote that aren’t really journalists, they’re leftwing propagandists.
Agree let them lead by example.
More like every three days.
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