Posted on 02/18/2023 10:56:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House this week reversed a Trump-era rule stripping the Environmental Protection Agency of some regulatory oversight over power plants, hailing the reversal as a win for “public health.”
The EPA said on a press release on Friday that the “Biden-Harris administration” had “reverse[d] a rule issued by the previous administration in May 2020” which “undermined the legal basis” for the EPA’s rulemaking authority regarding “mercury, acid gases, and other harmful pollutants.”
“For years, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards have protected the health of American communities nationwide, especially children, low-income communities, and communities of color who often and unjustly live near power plants,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in the announcement.
“This finding ensures the continuation of these critical, life-saving protections while advancing President Biden’s commitment to making science-based decisions and protecting the health and wellbeing of all people and all communities.”
The 2020 decision, the EPA claimed, was based “on a fundamentally flawed interpretation of the Clean Air Act that improperly ignored or undervalued vital health benefits from reducing hazardous air pollution from power plants.”
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Don’t forget a budgetary line-item veto to get rid of pork spending in unread legislation.
Reversing Trumps ruling, we will be forced to light the candles.
Five tank cars were loaded with Vinyl Chloride Mononer (VCM). Only one was compromised & it had a capacity of 25,740 gallons. Conjecturally, that’s in the realm of 200,000lbs of VCM.
The decision to vent & burn the VCM loads was based on the risk of proximal fires overheating the tanks leading to a possible tank blevey capable of throwing half a railcar a quarter mile or more.
VCM combustion yields about 3% Hydrogen Chloride (HCl), 6% CO2, <1% CO, and 0.004% Phosgene, plus about 6% carbon soot by weight.
Of those hazards, the HCl is worst, but still less dangerous than the potential of having five railcars explode and toss multi-ton hunks of steel in God knows what direction, in conjunction with concussive blasts that blow out windows halfway across town, and incinerate all the VCM in a succession of violently destructive fireballs.
Either way all the VCM burns.
One way is planned, and somewhat controlled.
The other is a crapshoot.
I favor the planned strategy.
(The communists are unstoppable in their journey to attaining 100% micro-control over every single aspect of our lives...)
Yeah
Stupid? < What you call the most successful sabotage in human history.
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