Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/04/2010 3:15:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at slashing emissions of sulfur dioxide, mercury and nitrogen oxide from smokestacks including coal-fired power plants.
The measure, which has stalled in Congress in years past, also would set up nationwide trading systems for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution permits, its sponsors said.
But it does not tackle the much larger and controversial question of how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions blamed for climate change. Separate negotiations are underway on a greenhouse gas emissions bill.
Democratic Senator Thomas Carper, a main sponsor of the legislation unveiled on Thursday, complained that legal challenges have held up Environmental Protection Agency regulations to reduce emissions of these gases.
He now wants Congress to expand the Clean Air Act to allow Washington to mandate emissions reductions of these gases.
"Passage will not only help us clean up our nation's power sector and our nation's air, it also will provide the certainty and predictability" industry is seeking, Carper said.
Last November, EPA proposed new air quality regulations for sulfur dioxide emissions.
Supporters of the legislation say it would save 215,000 lives and more than $2 trillion in health care costs by 2025, while costing less than $2 a month as companies install smokestack "scrubbers" and other clean air technologies.
The pollution has been linked to asthma attacks, heart disease, strokes, lung cancer and other illnesses.
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We need government regulation of O2. There is way too much of it.
They’re trying to regulate real air pollution? Al Gore will not be happy with this. Not happy at all!
Are these the same idiots who, several months ago, proposed pumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect away solar energy as a means of reducing global warming?
We must regulate and install scrubbers on all volcanoes.
Not until we clean out the toxic waste gurgeling out of Washington....good grief.
China, India, Russia and any Third World country with a smoke stack. We can start with our neighbors just south of the border.
..........What’s left to regulate ?
China, India, Russia and any Third World country with a smoke stack. We can start with our neighbors just south of the border...................
But! But, But, if we do that we’re going to decrease sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere, which will allow more sunlight to hit the planet, making it warmer;
the ice to melt; the sea to rise; and the polar bears will be history!
And, And, And, we’re all going to die!!!!!
We do whatever it take to stop Al Gore from becoming a Billionaire. If he want to regulate carbon dioxide, we want to regulate sulfur dioxide. If he switches over to sulfur dioxide, we switch to nitrous oxide. Once we have Al on nitrous oxide, we keep him on nitrous oxide and he will never, ever be the same Al again...
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