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Obama takes on coal with first-ever carbon limits
Houston Chronicle ^ | 09/19/2013 | Dina Cappiello

Posted on 09/19/2013 8:16:28 PM PDT by TexGrill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming.

The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy. It's also a key step in President Barack Obama's global warming plans, because it would help end what he called "the limitless dumping of carbon pollution" from power plants.

Although the proposed rule won't immediatedly affect plants already operating, it eventually would force the government to limit emissions from the existing power plant fleet, which accounts for a third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Obama has given the Environmental Protection Agency until next summer to propose those regulations.

The EPA provided The Associated Press with details of the proposal prior to the official announcement, which was expected Friday morning. The public will have a chance to comment on the rule before it becomes final.

Despite some tweaks, the rule packs the same punch as one announced last year, which was widely criticized by industry and Republicans as effectively banning any new coal projects in the U.S.

That's because to meet the standard, new coal-fired power plants would need to install expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide and bury it underground. No coal-fired power plant has done that yet, in large part because of the cost. And those plants that the EPA points to as potential models, such as a coal plant being built in Kemper County, Miss., by Southern Co., have received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and tax credits.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: carbon; climatechange; co2; coal; coalplants; coalpower; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; necessarilyskyrocket; obamacoal; waroncoal
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Global business tip. (Holiday season in Asia now, so posting non-Asia stories for the time being. Next week will be a regular news cycle for the region and first week on October would be another holiday.)
1 posted on 09/19/2013 8:16:28 PM PDT by TexGrill
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To: TexGrill

Completely impractical nonsense that will kill one of the USA’s key competitive advantages, cheap energy.


2 posted on 09/19/2013 8:22:06 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: TexGrill

I think ‘rats produce WAY too much CO2. they need to have their CO2 production stifled...for Gaia.


3 posted on 09/19/2013 8:22:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: TexGrill

Yeah, let’s not use an energy resource we have 1,000 years worth of reserves in.


4 posted on 09/19/2013 8:22:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: TexGrill

to meet the standard, new coal-fired power plants would need to install expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide and bury it underground.

Burying a Gas Underground? This certainly has been Jaw Dropper Week!


5 posted on 09/19/2013 8:23:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: FreedomPoster
if you're ever in the Gillette Wyo area, you would see this huge channel where they are mining coal...immense...

what's going to happen to all these coal towns?

6 posted on 09/19/2013 8:30:53 PM PDT by cherry
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7 posted on 09/19/2013 8:32:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Obamama, Gore et al should be arrested for perpetrating world greatest scam and extortion scheme.
“Global warming” or “Climate change” is pure hoax.
We are getting 99% of energy from SUN, aaaaand are on the mercy of SUNs sunspot cycles. Human activity contributes nothing to “change”. See the differences day/night, summer/winter.
What’s next? Obama pissing in the ocean and causing “Global Flooding”??? Oh yeah, tax it!


8 posted on 09/19/2013 8:34:08 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: cherry
what's going to happen to all these coal towns?

Food stamps, AFDC, gubmint cheese, WIC, Section 8, whatever . . .

9 posted on 09/19/2013 8:34:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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To: Leo Carpathian

The eco-criminals Clown Prince nobama and Mega-Idiot loser algore should be in prison for their crimes against fact and logic.


10 posted on 09/19/2013 8:37:05 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: TexGrill

There were enough people who voted for obama in coal states that he only had to cheat by a few percent. I’d love to know what they’re thinking.

Everything obama does is to hurt the country. I simply can’t understand why so many people are helping him. It’s pure evil.


11 posted on 09/19/2013 8:37:39 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: TexGrill
The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy.

Sorry Dina, that is not what it will do at all.

12 posted on 09/19/2013 8:39:58 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Leo Carpathian

are those archaic laws against extortion still on the books.... after the past five years?

who’s grand scheme is Burying Carbon Dioxide? can that even BE DONE?

Obama...is pissing into the wind


13 posted on 09/19/2013 8:41:31 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: houeto

from a coal-dependent past....... into a Gubment Dependent Future?

this is “pure” insanity...

ahaha theyre calling it “CARBON SEQUESTRATION”


14 posted on 09/19/2013 8:45:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Nachum

Ping.


15 posted on 09/19/2013 8:50:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Not in WV, he did not carry a single county. During the primary he was second to a felon serving time in Texas, in several counties.


16 posted on 09/19/2013 9:37:35 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

I forgot about WV. But he got enough votes in Ohio and Penn.


17 posted on 09/19/2013 11:40:22 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: TexGrill

Do the Global Warming True Believers understand that every time they exhale, they are polluting? I wish they would stop adding pollution to our air!


18 posted on 09/20/2013 3:03:50 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: TexGrill
This is the year, of all of the past two decades, when global warming has taken the worst beating. The CAGW crowd is in full retreat. And here we have Obama and his bunch trying to kill the use of coal because of CO2 emissions. And the AP reporting on it with positive spin.

the rule packs the same punch as one announced last year, which was widely criticized by industry and Republicans as effectively banning any new coal projects in the U.S.

Still fighting a battle from over a century ago against the robber barons. The Progressives haven't figured out in six generations that they themselves benefit from industry and that the evil people who are trying to dominate the world and rob the wealth of productive people are now Democrats, not industrialists and Republicans.

19 posted on 09/20/2013 3:34:04 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: TexGrill
"the limitless dumping of carbon pollution"

I'm sure that phrase has been properly focus-group-tested. The tricky part is getting the proles to really believe it rains harder because the carbon pollution absorbed a photon that melted some ice that rose the seas that tipped over an island somewhere.

20 posted on 09/20/2013 6:58:05 AM PDT by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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