Posted on 08/02/2015 12:01:49 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — In the strongest action ever taken in the United States to combat climate change, President Obama will unveil on Monday a set of environmental regulations devised to sharply cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants and ultimately transform America’s electricity industry.
The rules are the final, tougher versions of proposed regulations that the Environmental Protection Agency announced in 2012 and 2014. If they withstand the expected legal challenges, the regulations will set in motion sweeping policy changes that could shut down hundreds of coal-fired power plants, freeze construction of new coal plants and create a boom in the production of wind and solar power and other renewable energy sources.
As the president came to see the fight against climate change as central to his legacy, as important as the Affordable Care Act, he moved to strengthen the energy proposals, advisers said. The health law became the dominant political issue of the 2010 congressional elections and faced dozens of legislative assaults before surviving two Supreme Court challenges largely intact.
“Climate change is not a problem for another generation, not anymore,” Mr. Obama said in a video posted on Facebook at midnight Saturday. He called the new rules “the biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken to combat climate change.”
The most aggressive of the regulations requires the nation’s existing power plants to cut emissions 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, an increase from the 30 percent target proposed in the draft regulation. . .
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The, “Affordable Air Act”?
...and thousands more coal employees lose their jobs.
In the most economically depressed areas of the nation.
His Legacy will be “The guy who destroyed the U.S.A and most of the civilized world.”
And he relishes that thought, as long as he personally doesn’t suffer for it in this life.
“That’s not how China does it.”
No one should make any human moves on “global warming” until after the El Niño year. If temps don’t go higher and stay higher, then most likely any climate change is not due to co2 at all but changes in the sun’s activity.
So it matters squat what we little ants do down here.
We are idiots if we let him get away with this. It’s bunk.
Here comes more evil....
“Necessarily skyrocket”
“You can build a coal plant, but it will bankrupt you”
I guess people thought he was joking.
If we had a true opposition party, he would have been impeached, convicted, and imprisoned years ago for crap like this.
Repeal the 17th.
His mind is the Devil’s workshop.
Insanity
I almost want him to do it. Unemployment and inflation will be thru the roof just in time for the Rats shellacking in November 2016.
ANR is filing chapter tomorrow if they have not this weekend. I have yet to look. One thing is for sure. Thousands of lost jobs in that press release.
Obama’s environmental legacy will most of the country shivering or sweltering in darkened homes, offices and schools, $5+ per gallon gasoline and rolling blackouts covering large parts of the country when ever weather fronts idle the forests of windmills that blight the landscape.
As if his legacy isn’t despicable enough already.
Brids and bats hardest hit ... other than those millions of humans who will either freeze to death in the winter or bake to death in the summer.
Unlike most other people, I have a smile on my face... as I consider all of the backlash that is coming onto the environmentalists, EPA and especially the Obama’s ‘legacy’.
Yes it will get horribly bad for awhile, however the pendulum will swing the other way. And when it does...
Really? And where do you see this “backlash” coming from? Have you spent ANY time outside your bubble?
I have 3 kids in their 20’s and they’ve heard global warming crap for YEARS that I have had to debunk...
You have BILLIONAIRES spending their fortunes to not only influence legislation but to spew forth propaganda for the FB masses. Hollywood makes movies and TV shows as well...
Again, where’s the backlash coming from? In a SANE WORLD, every PP clinic would have already been burned to the ground and lots of people hanging from the ends of ropes...
Wind and solar do not produce enough power to run major cities. It’s a pipe dream. Global warming is at best a theory and more likely “political movement.” How did we get to the point where such major policy changes can happen without being passed through congress? I’m gonna go for a walk now......
so instead of leaving the largest carbon footprint of all Americans, he and his family are going to walk to their next vacation destination....
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