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EPA: (U.S.) Power plants main global warming culprits (ULTRa BaRF ALerT! Gubamint Runamuckin')
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Posted on 01/11/2012 1:06:55 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AP) The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming.
Power plants released 72 percent of the greenhouse gases reported to the Environmental Protection Agency for 2010, according to information released Wednesday that was the first catalog of global warming pollution by facility. The data include more than 6,700 of the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gases, or about 80 percent of total U.S. emissions.
According to an Associated Press analysis of the data, 20 mostly coal-fired power plants in 15 states account for the top-releasing facilities.
Gina McCarthy, the top air official at the EPA, said the database marked "a major milestone" in the agency's work to address climate change. She said it would help industry, states and the federal government identify ways to reduce greenhouse gases.
The Obama administration plans to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases under existing law. A proposed regulation to address pollution from new power plants could be released as early as this month. Eventually, the EPA will have to tackle facilities already in operation. The largest emitters will be the first in line.
The largest greenhouse gas polluter in the nation in 2010, according to the EPA's data, was the Scherer power plant in Juliette, Ga., owned by Southern Company. That coal-fired power plant reported releasing nearly 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, in 2010.
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To: cuban leaf
heh heh...
yeah, abolish all power production and motor vehicles except for the ruling class, ya mean.
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posted on
01/11/2012 1:47:34 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Wildbill22
The all think/thought that they were going to be in the “in crowd” that would still have access to power.
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posted on
01/11/2012 1:48:21 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: sand88
There is a trick to lowering your heating bills in the summer,
unfortunately, it IS a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
The trick:
Watering your roof to evaporatively cool your roof, attic, and subsequently your home.
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posted on
01/11/2012 1:49:51 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: beethovenfan
It’s clear that no one at the EPA has ever been to China
To: Charles Martel
To show his good faith Obama could easily direct that as a condition of employment ALL EPA employees must UNHOOK FROM THE GRID, stopper up their fireplaces, and learn to do without heat and light.
Failure of him to do that ...................... well, it means he isn't serious.
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:08:20 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; grey_whiskers; ApplegateRanch; Whenifhow; WL-law; Berlin_Freeper; Horusra; ..
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:20:51 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:27:08 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: MrB
There is a trick to lowering your heating bills in the summer... I have a pretty low heating bill in the summer, thanks anyway.
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:30:12 PM PST
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: NormsRevenge
Even our nuclear ones????? Even our hydro-electric ones???
Hey let's build more of them!!!! We can replace every coal-fired one within a decade.
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:31:02 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(Vote Perry)
To: NormsRevenge
U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming. "Blamed for"? So what? Prove cause and effect!
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:41:39 PM PST
by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: NormsRevenge
They won’t be happy until we are all starving in the dark.
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:55:35 PM PST
by
Grunthor
(At least he is better than Obama! Is NOT a rallying cry!)
To: NormsRevenge
Let’s turn off all of the EPA’s electricity until Dick Obama is out of office.
Just a feasibility study, you see.
Then after obama is out of office, just turn the EPA off.
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posted on
01/11/2012 3:31:06 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: apillar
It seems counter-intuitive in an election year, when most incumbents move to the center.... Unless they have come to the conclusion that Obama is going to lose in 2012 no matter what My opinion differs. I think he's playing to his base, the "skulls full of mush" Left. He's had several revolts from his own Left, giving him hell because he hasn't implemented environmental restrictions fast enough.
He and his backers (Soros, et al) figure young Americans have been sufficiently brainwashed and dumbed-down to vote to re-elect him. The OWS robots are examples but there are millions more on college campuses and in activist groups with no idea of how America works or became successful.
Republicans will do Obama an enormous favor if they nominate Romney, the 1% silver spoon multi-millionaire. Central casting could not select a better opponent in the class warfare propaganda struggle to come.
To: NormsRevenge
Everytime I turn off my LG flat screen monitor I keep 17724-17735 grams of carbon dioxide from destroying our planet...it doesn't matter if the monitor is off 1 second or 1 day the savings is the same. Just install a bank of those on/off switches at every power plant...problem solved!!
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posted on
01/11/2012 4:44:25 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
01/11/2012 4:45:19 PM PST
by
Paradox
(The rich SHOULD be paying more taxes, and they WOULD, if they could make more money.)
To: NormsRevenge
Maybe the thing to do would be to allow US power plants to upgrade their facilities in stages, rather than requiring them to completely conform to current codes the moment they make an improvement?
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posted on
01/11/2012 4:45:34 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(Diplomacy is war by other means.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks NormsRevenge. The EPA is not your enemy -- well, not ONLY the EPA.
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posted on
01/11/2012 5:48:27 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
Click
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posted on
01/11/2012 7:04:35 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: NormsRevenge
so cars are off the hook now??
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posted on
01/11/2012 7:12:24 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: NormsRevenge; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
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posted on
01/11/2012 11:00:25 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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