Posted on 09/03/2018 7:19:41 PM PDT by tcrlaf
It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.
So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan rolling back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.
Trump left one thing out of his remarks, though: northern West Virginia coal country will be ground zero for increased deaths and illnesses from the rollback on regulation of harmful emission from the nation's coal power plants.
An analysis done by his own Environmental Protection Agency concludes that the plan would lead to a greater number of people here dying prematurely, and suffering health problems that they otherwise would not have, than elsewhere in the country, when compared to health impacts of the Obama plan.
Knotts, a coal miner for 35 years, isn't fazed when he hears that warning, a couple of days after Trump's West Virginia rally. He says the last thing people in coal country want is the government slapping down more controls on coal — and the air here in the remote West Virginia mountains seems fine to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Very true, and in some ways natgas is a great alternative. I work in a coal-fires plant that is sited on probably 400 acres, went online in 1978. My company also has a combined cycle plant sited on a city block that produces the same output with no coal whatsoever.
One problem is, how do you store a six month supply of natgas on site if something happens to that pipeline? And, yes, pipelines experience problems. It’s not unusual.
Trump rollback on pollution rules to hit DNC hard!
I noticed that too and immediately figured “his own” meant “holdovers from former administrations.”
Silly, They wear helmets.
Another Stein writer..I’m so surprised.
Don't you mean "Moronstein"?
Gene Shalits evil twin?
This is why the anti-power people take power plant photos in winter, as they can pass off cooling tower water vapor as “Pollutants”. It’s WATER VAPOR!
Seth Borenstein! a figure of mockery for years. lots of stuff on wattsupwiththat. he’s AP’s top gloBULL warming promoter:
19 Jun: WattsUpWithThat: Pielke’s retort to AP’s Seth Borenstein: “how climate change is making us dumb”
Anthony Watts
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/19/pielkes-retort-to-aps-seth-borenstein-how-climate-change-is-making-us-dumb/
They gotta be laughing their arses off reading this article at the diner in coal country.
This article has desperation and stupid written all over it.
And how many people would die as a consequence of poverty if the rules were kept in place?
Starvation, malnutrition, not taking care early of curable diseases before they do damage, etc. Did they factor that in? of course not..
My Grandfather went into the West (by GOD) Virginia coal mines when he was 14 (before all these stupid rules), they forcibly retired him at 71.
He lived to be 92.
People now days are just pussies!
Facts be damned! Every death will be blamed on Trump, whether it’s a coal miner or an office worker.
Too funny Seth...how about we make a deal....you help us get rid of all the illegals, which saves lives, and we will tighten the standards enough to ensure clean air...which is what we just loosened them to instead of keeping them at impossible levels.....;-)
AP is AntiAmerican Press...typical junk.
You are right. The scrubbers take out everything now. We have clean coal.
Sky is falling, check.
Trumps fault, check.
Fake news, check.
Coffee time.
A Gene Shalit wannabe? He couldn’t get a job as a film critic, so he leeched on to the Algor Grift Train?
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