EPA Waging 'War on Coal'?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/06/18 03:30:00

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency, War, Pollution, United States, Virginia, Coal, Co2, Clean

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The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan that would
essentially "outlaw" coal-fired power plants in the United States — yet have no
significant effect on global CO2 emissions.

The EPA calls the plan the first "Clean Air Act standard for carbon
pollution" in new power plants.

"The proposal, if enacted, will effectively outlaw the construction of new
coal-fired power plants by capping acceptable carbon dioxide emissions at a
level below what is attainable by modern plants," according to Robert Bryce, a
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

"Prohibiting coal will increase the cost of producing electricity — a cost
which will ultimately be paid by consumers — while doing almost nothing to
reduce global carbon-dioxide emissions."

After the EPA announced the 257-page proposed plan, Democratic Sen. Joe
Manchin of West Virginia said the move shows that the EPA is engaged "in a war
on coal."

Christy 2012/06/18 04:39:19

I don't see where it is prohibiting coal.

"New plants can choose to burn any fossil fuel to generate electricity, including natural gas as well as coal with the help of technologies that reduce carbon emissions."

http://epa.gov/carbonpollutio...

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abubincrazy 2012/06/18 04:15:28

+1
It's really a "War on America".
They are attacking our economy, attacking our system of governance, attacking our production of energy...
It's the socialists and muslims bribing the political class in America to betray us.

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S and S 2012/06/18 04:04:57

+1
EPA would arrest and execute God for volcanoes, oil, coal, CO2 emissions from Ocean, CO2 emission for decomposing vegitation... Epa needs execution immediately... $30,000 per day fine for a family building a legal and approved w/ permits.

So if epa distroys coal plants ("52% of electrical generation) WTF is the replacement????

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The River Rat 2012/06/18 03:33:10

+1
The EPA is waging war on the capitalistic economic system and the American way of life.

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~ The Rebel ~ 2012/06/18 03:30:52

Coal currently provides about 46 percent of domestic electricity, and the United States has some 237 billion tons of coal reserves — about 28 percent of the world's deposits, and about 241 years of supply at current rates of consumption.

"Coal continues to present a compelling value for electricity production because deposits of the fuel are abundant, widely dispersed, easily mined, and they are not controlled by any OPEC-like cartels," Bryce observes.

Yet coal is "the most vilified energy source," he adds, noting that one of the nation's most powerful environmental groups, the Sierra Club, is leading an effort aimed at closing down all coal-fired power plants.

He also points out that the newest coal-fired plants are reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide to levels far below those mandated by the EPA.

http://www.newsmax.com/Inside...

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