Posted on 02/18/2023 6:53:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reaffirmed the basis for a rule that requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants, reversing a move late in former President Donald Trump’s administration to roll back emissions standards.
The EPA said it found it “appropriate and necessary” to regulate emissions of toxic air pollution under the Clean Air Act, setting the stage to restore protections enacted when President Barack Obama’s EPA issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
The move is in line with a larger push by the EPA under President Joe Biden to restore the numerous federal environmental protections that were rolled back by Trump’s administration, like reinstating rigorous environmental reviews for large infrastructure projects, protecting thousands of waterways and preserving endangered species.
Public health professionals and environmentalists praised the restoration of the Obama-era rule, saying it protects Americans, especially children, from some of the most dangerous forms of air pollution. But many also said the administration could go further by requiring even greater reductions in toxic air pollution from power plants.
Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the announcement resolves whether the EPA should regulate mercury and other toxic air pollution.
“When the previous administration chose to remove the legal underpinnings of the MATS rule, they ignored the irrefutable science on the devastating impacts that mercury has on children’s health,” Carper said.
But Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, the committee’s ranking Republican, warned the rule is part of Biden’s goal “to shut down American coal plants.”
“We’ve experienced the damage these regulations have done across our country, including in West Virginia,” Capito said.
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Sounds like the EPA is looking for ways to help Trump make it back to the White House.
As long as Deep State can control elections, the EPA, like the rest of Deep State, can and will do what it wants with impunity.
There will be nothing and YOU will like
Good thing mercury doesn’t naturally occur in the wild.
Mercury free EV charging stations, like unleaded gasoline and low Sulphur diesel.
A million dollar cure for a 10 cent problem.
Meanwhile, they are ignoring the real disaster playing out in Ohio.
This more of the Eco-Retards war against coal. Coal burning plants put out mercury, that I am fairly sure can be scrubbed away. In any case gets dispersed so far and wide that it does not register as polluting lakes and streams.
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Coal-fired power plants are the largest single man-made source of mercury pollutants, which enter the food chain through fish and other items that people consume. Mercury can affect the nervous system and kidneys; the World Health Organization says fetuses are especially vulnerable to birth defects via exposure in a mother’s womb.
https://apnews.com/article/science-politics-climate-and-environment-us-environmental-protection-agency-barack-obama-3bfb28e5022dc79cc1e9fb0acc3d1561
requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants,
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Unless it’s Vinyl chloride in a primarily Republican voting white judeo Christian area
.. Then just burn it and watch it blacken the sky and poison everything the wind can reach.
Spit.
Priorities I guess.
I remember as a kid playing with mercury in science class. Hmm, maybe that explains why my brain works the way it does. Or maybe it was the paint chips I would eat.
I don’t know if mercury pollution is serious thing or not. But I do know that this ruling is one more reason to locate your factory overseas.
So we will have a beautiful and pristine environment, and no factory jobs. But government jobs will be safe. I guess that’s all that matters.
Nobody would invest in these controls for coal fired plants.
We will have glorious electric cars and houses! They will never wear out because you won’t be able to use them.
Yes and the Biden bonus round is make us more dependent on China he never says a word about the massive amounts of pollutants China or India produces by the day aka the Biden smoke screen.
“...A million dollar cure for a 10 cent problem....”
That’d be there standard mode of operation.
Kinda like those two $400K missiles to take out a $12 balloon.
Our hard-earned tax dollars at work!!! /s
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While the EPA is arguably a good idea, please consider the following.
It remains that not only have the states have never expressly constitutitonally given the constitutionally limited power feds the specific power to police environmental protections, but popularly elected lawmakers, not constitutionally undefined, non-popularly elected government bureaucrats, must take full responsibility for the government powers that voters trusted them with, and risk getting booted out of office for unpopular regulations.
When non-elected bureaucrats make edicts that citizens must comply with, it wrongly weakens the constitutionally enumerated the voting power of citizens.
In fact, constitutionally undefined government bureaucrats undoubtedly helped to foster the emergence of infamous career lawmakers.
Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?
The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...
All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.
If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.
Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.
Rather than ‘a shot across the bow’, that’s a death sentence for low energy prices.
And what rules do they have about the rare earths filling solar panels and EV batteries?
What a joke we have become. The feds allow release of dioxins from the train derailment in Ohio (think Agent Orange) in a county and state who voted Trump, and this is what the Commie presstitutes come up with?
Freeze in the dark and love it, peons!
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