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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That’s why they’re angling for NOx emissions. Their reasoning is that the ruling only means CO2 is off limits, except for individual cases, so make up another reason to tyrannize the entire country. Hopefully, that case applies more broadly, and/or a court can see that the global warmunists are trying to get around that ruling and thus stop them.
Which would be more toxic, the new pipeline, or the 70-year-old pipeline, which would be more likely to break down or even explode.
I thought that maybe there’s a guiding hand higher up pushing the Sierra Idiots and the other environ-MENTAL idiots into pushing this petition, as another means of goading us into “doing something” before the election so that Butt-Head could fully shut us down. So, as true as your statement may be, such a guiding hand would find it heartening.
Unfortunately.
I would be fine with that, or at least turn off the government spigots to non-profits. If they had to raise all their money from ordinary folks and philanthropists, they simply couldn’t afford to do all this BS, IMO.
Then most White female teachers should be manning the unemployment lines. Anybody silly enough to embrace these concepts shouldn’t be within a mile of groups of children.
Because they're persistent and stay involved. The rest of us just want to live our lives and be left alone. That won't work anymore.
It truly truly boggles my mind how STUPID, mis-guided, and short sighted these people are while at same time they remain absolutely clueless that they are those things. I simply can’t wrap my head around levels of lack of critical thinking in humans right now
Thanks. I don’t see the NOx that any of us might produce as intrinsically harmful. The NOx that a power plant might produce burning a fossil fuel may be of concern. It is emitted through a high stack and then can react with water high up in the atmosphere to produce nitric acid, which along with sulfuric acid can adulterate rainwater to produce acid rain*. I’m not sure that would apply near the ground, where our chimneys and roof vents are, and is a moot point, according to what you said.
*There is even some question as to whether acid rain was as harmful as it was said to be, as far as I know.
I agree. Turn off the government spigots and get to work enforcing laws against major crooks, who, for all I know, could also be providing major donations to them. Also ban foreign donations to American non-profits; that should stop the Russians and Saudis.
Look up “Dunning-Kruger Effect.”
Have any of these low grade morons ever proposed a viable/economic alternative.
The World Watch Institute actually did back in the early 1990s: a solar-hydrogen economy. Solar energy would be used for electrolysis to break down water, and then the resulting hydrogen could be burned for energy, resulting in water again. However, there wasn’t much mention of how hydrogen molecules are so tiny that they can escape from just about anything. I have no idea, for example, as to how leaky the Hindenburg might have been — the hydrogen used to inflate the blimp was the reason for the explosion in NJ.
Where does the EPA get this power?
Sorry, but this is no longer considered a silly concept, rather it is a touchstone of enlightened and virtuous thought. Those who oppose this action are like Holocaust deniers.
H’mmm, perhaps it is time to start collecting buffalo chips and cow patties.
H’mmm, perhaps it is time to start collecting buffalo chips and cow patties.
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Don’t forget their fellow travelers at Earth First, The Nature Conservancy and PEW.
Or time to move to Wyoming.
These A**HOLES are trying to kill us all.
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