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Obama Moves to Limit Power-Plant Carbon Pollution
ABC News ^ | Sept 20, 2013 | DINA CAPPIELLO, AP

Posted on 09/20/2013 4:03:39 PM PDT by Innovative

Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and Republicans that it would dim coal's future.

Under the law once the Environmental Protection Agency controls carbon at new plants, it will also control carbon at existing plants — a regulation the agency said Friday it would start work on immediately to meet a June 2014 deadline.

The revised standards, the company said in a statement, "essentially eliminate coal as a future generation option."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoenergy; carbon; coal; coalplants; coalpower; electricity; energy; energyproduction; epaoutofcontrol; globalwarming; obama; powerplants; waroncoal
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To: nascarnation

Yes, I understand it’s all about control.

Can you think of a similar hoax of this magnitude that has been foisted on our populace?


21 posted on 09/20/2013 5:48:12 PM PDT by abclily
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To: abclily

Social Security


22 posted on 09/20/2013 5:48:48 PM PDT by nascarnation (Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
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To: nascarnation

You are correct!


23 posted on 09/20/2013 5:54:46 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Innovative

carbon pollution is trivial compared to the Obama pollution

Obama is American enemy Number 1

Ridding the Republic of him should be priority #1


24 posted on 09/20/2013 5:59:52 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Innovative

Germany industry in revolt as green dream causes cost spiral

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10321173/Germany-industry-in-revolt-as-green-dream-causes-cost-spiral.html

Germany’s top economic adviser has called for a radical rethink of the country’s energy policies, warning that the green dream is going badly wrong as costs spiral out of control.


25 posted on 09/20/2013 6:51:32 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

How Europe’s Economy Is Being Devastated By Global Warming Orthodoxy (preview of US)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3069376/posts


26 posted on 09/20/2013 6:53:32 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

He ran on it his first term - yet here we are. Sad that we had a chance to do the unprincipled thing and “choose lesser evils” but decided to go with the Stygian blackness we now fear will be our undoing.


27 posted on 09/21/2013 2:39:58 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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