EPA Rules To Force 85 Coal-Fired Generators To Close By The End Of This Year

dailycaller.com ^ | march 10, 2015 | Michael Bastasch

[independentmind]

The EPA wants each state to come up with its own Clean Power Plan to meet federally established goals. If the states fail to do that, the EPA claims that they can impose a federal solution. In the meantime, it can cut off any state who chooses non-compliance with from federal highway funds.

Laurence Tribe, a liberal constitutional scholar and Harvard professor has written that the EPA’s latest rules are unconstitutional.

Not surprisingly, all of this has received very little press attention.

[palmer]

1. Rolling blackouts in the summer

That is manageable. It is the rolling blackouts in the winter that will destroy property and kill people.

[Georgia Girl 2]

In GA the majority of folks use gas heat. But probably a lot don’t. In the summer like July and August if you don’t have AC you can seriously expire. It is so hot you can’t breath. Poor old folks down in the projects etc die every summer here because they only have a fan or don’t even have that.

[palmer]

Mortality is 10-15% higher in winter than in summer. That is mortality for nearly every type of illness. That especially includes cardio vascular and stroke, but also diseases like cancer. In summer people can die from the heat but for the majority of those, their time was up. What happens after a summer heat wave is death rates drop below the average for the summer. What happens after a cold wave is death rates stay high.

I don't think that lack of A/C due to lack of electricity is going to change that since that disparity has been true since before A/C. It is basically the fact that heat can be alleviated rather easily, adapted to, etc, but cold wears you down.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think you are right when referring to the NE. Winter is the killer. Here in the South summer is the killer. We don’t get that cold here and it only lasts for 3 mos.

[Steve0113]

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