Posted on 09/06/2022 7:05:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
More than two dozen environmental organizations petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of natural gas for home heating nationwide, arguing the federal agency must regulate “deadly pollution from heating appliances.”
The petition, sponsored by the Sierra Club, claims fossil fuel-fired home furnaces, water heaters, clothes dryers and stoves emit enough nitrogen dioxide (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) that they must be classified as “new stationary sources” of air pollutants, placing them in the same regulatory regime as power plants and factories.
The petition resembles – but goes beyond Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Roadmap for a clean heat program, a key component of efforts to transition to a natural gas-free heating economy.
“Gas heating appliances, such as water heaters, furnaces, boilers, stoves, and clothes dryers represent about 80% of fossil fuel-fired heating appliances and emit the majority of appliance pollution, including both climate-disrupting GHG emissions and pollutants that directly impact human health,” the petition says.
“The data is incontrovertible: heating appliances in residential and commercial buildings contribute significantly to pollution that endangers public health and welfare. The emissions from these sources are major drivers of the dual crises of climate change and unclean air,” the petition adds.
Some critics described the petition as a sham and excuse to go after carbon dioxide emissions, with regulation of nitrogen dioxide as the vehicle to accomplish that goal.
The petition’s reading would force the EPA to set NOx standards that would effectively ban the use of natural gas in all new construction within a year after the regulation is implemented. Even existing gas appliances would have to be replaced eventually – at the end of their life cycle or when they break down.
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The Sierra Club is an enemy of the American people, IMO.
Scratch a Green, find a Red.
Great line.
That’s why I call them watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside.
CC
”Green” on the outside
but RED on the inside!
John Muir is spinning in his grave.
And loony tunes thru and thru
I’d wager their lifestyles don’t match their rhetoric
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If they cut off my gas I guess I could switch over to wood.
Electric is not an option.
ban the cleanest burning fuel we have, brilliant...
Imagine a world without leftists.
Hello! Did any of you morons over at the Sierra Club read West Virginia v EPA? The EPA is no longer in the legislating business.
“Imagine, no more leftists...
Imagine all the people, well armed living peaceably...”
In a nearby town, there’s a whole bunch of signs about “stop the toxic pipeline”. I got curious and looked up the website. Turns out, the local utility wants to install a new pipeline to replace like a 70 year old natural gas pipeline. The idiot leftists are yelling and screaming how old is so dangerous, despite the signs being plopped in front of houses that almost all heat with natural gas.
When California isn’t able to keep the lights on because of air-conditioning being used in the summer, these idiots double down And demand the use of electric heat
When I asked why EV cars are banned from the property, management's response was that they would have to beef up ALL the wiring to accommodate the load of charging cars. Not mentioned was insurance issues with EVs and their tenancy to become pillars of fire.
Sierra Club the craziest of the crazy
Here in Michigan about 1/3 of the electricity is Nuclear, 1/3 coal, and 1/3 natural gas (and 5% windmills and ugly farms and insignificant hydro.)
So get rid of the gas, and replace it by dirtier coal and... gas + transmission losses! So smart.
SPJNK
And was a cost Analysis done on this? No it wasn’t. And they assume everyone can switch over to electricity and that puts more pressure on the Grid. So the Sierra Club wants us to be like Europe and freeze and have no way to generate power.
I suppose at one time The Sierra Club was to be admired for their Conservation efforts and such, somewhere along the way to went way Leftist and Radical as most self-perpetuating organizations do.
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