Posted on 04/27/2024 3:53:53 AM PDT by karpov
The Biden Administration’s regulations are coming so fast and furious that it’s hard even to keep track, but we’re trying. On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency proposed its latest doozy—rules that will effectively force coal plants to shut down while banning new natural-gas plants.
“With the announcement today, the power sector can make planning decisions with a full array of information,” EPA’s press release declares. Translation: Get moving with the green-energy transition because we’re determined to eliminate fossil-fuel power.
Barack Obama’s regulation spurred a wave of coal plant closures. Now President Biden is trying to finish the job by tightening mercury, wastewater and ash disposal standards. EPA is also replacing the Obama Clean Power Plan that the Supreme Court struck down with a rule requiring that coal plants and new gas-fired plants adopt costly and unproven carbon-capture technology by 2032.
Section 111 of the Clean Air Act says the EPA can regulate pollutants from stationary sources through the “best system of emission reduction” that is “adequately demonstrated.” Carbon capture is neither the best nor adequately demonstrated. As of last year, only one commercial-scale coal plant in the world used carbon capture, and no gas-fired plants did.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Also from April 26 is a WSJ article "Air Conditioning and AI Are Demanding More of the World’s Power—Renewables Can’t Keep Up." archived here.
Deep States worldwide are annihilating their middle classes.
Brandon is campaigning on this, yes? Do the Dominion machines have battery backup?
This is why the RATs cheat in elections. This is why they flood the country with illegals and give them free stuff...for a while anyway. The are just meat to send to the polls for a vote.
People don’t get excited to vote for things that damage themselves like this would.
I mean, what could go wrong when you infest a country with savages who don’t know how to wipe their own butts, believe in raping single digit aged children and have no loyalty or appreciation for our country.
Rabid eco-freaks will ruin civilization in order to save it. Oxymorons all of them. Natural gas is clean and plentiful. Coal should probably be phased out, but not before something can take its place efficiently and economically.
The end goal is to cull the herd of the weak.
As President, I would demand the project plan for bringing green energy to fruition. I would like to see the key stakeholders, the risk management plan, the business case with the costs, scope and schedule and see status reports monthly posted on the EPA site.
We the People have the right to this since it is being paid for with our money.
The Halfrican’s “War on Coal” flipped my SE Ohio district to solid red.
Unintended Consequences.
They don't want to SAVE it.
Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" meme is a false crisis, invented out of thin air by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a 90% die-off of human populations by suppressing Western European culture and technology. Human suffering is irrelevent.. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.
Meanwhile, trust the climate oligarchs to find private profit in public policy.
rolling brown outs and screaming high electric rates
...Electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket...
From BHO.
I don’t think coal needs to be phased out. They judge need to clean up the plants. If you can have a double burn wood furnace, why can’t they make double burn coal plants?
There is value in coal ash, the least of which is a source of graphene.
Smart meters coming to you!!
The seniors citizens will be decimated.
Soylent Green is people.
“By the way, EPA plans to unveil soon another rule to reduce CO2 emissions from existing gas-fired plants, so some of them may also have to shut down. Meantime, China has added about 200 gigawatts of coal power over the last five years—about as much as the entire U.S. coal fleet. The Biden fossil-fuel onslaught will have no effect on global temperatures.”
Man made climate change is not only a lie, it is evil!
Any law, regulation or rule based on this lie is also evil.
They are trying to control people (around the world) by using this lie to change our societies and push us back into a per-industrial age.
Yes. They are both oxen and morons.
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And to think, I was worried about what would happen if there was an EMP - never thought our own government would devise something worse
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