Posted on 11/21/2015 7:31:11 AM PST by dynoman
The IBEW has filed suit to prevent the implementation of new federal regulations on power plants. The IBEW petition joins the 27 states, several utilities and two other labor unions that are already challenging the regulation.
"The EPA is creating energy policy and they have neither the expertise nor the legal authority to do it," said International President Lonnie R. Stephenson. "We worked with the EPA for years to address greenhouse gas emissions with a plan that is both effective and legal. Unfortunately, we don't believe this regulation is either."
"Human-caused climate change is real, and a real threat, but focusing on power generation in isolation –leaving out industry, agriculture and transportation-ignores three-quarters of the problem," Stephenson said. "Everyone will benefit from an effective response so everyone should share in the cost."
Instead of simply requiring plants to increase efficiency using available technology, they have set a target of nearly 40 percent reduction in emissions from coal plants that would require shutting down production and, presumably, replacing it with natural gas, wind and solar generation that in many cases, does not exist.
"There is no economically feasible technology outside of a lab that would cut emissions nearly 40 percent," said Utility Department Director Jim Hunter. "Ordering plants to shut down was a power never envisioned by the authors of the Clean Air Act and it has never been allowed by a court."
(Excerpt) Read more at ibew.org ...
Slimey union scum will drink muslim vomit if the order came from Obozo! Ef em and hope they all lose their jobs!
thanks for saving me the effort of saying the same thing
I’m slimy union scum that will not donate and vote for RATS. There are many others like me.
I’m a “Commie” IBEW member who is not on my knees nor a useful idiot.
Before breathing is outlawed, beer will be outlawed
The beer head froth is produced by carbon dioxide coming out of solution. The whole alcohol industry is based on a CO2 emitting fermentation processes.
Up here in Fairbanks, the “commie” fringe in the IBEW is very small. Most union members have NRA and Republican bumper stickers on their trucks. Of course the Alaska IBEW in Alaska is kind of separated from the lower 48 crowd too.
So was I, ...until 1970.
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