Posted on 07/12/2011 6:16:57 AM PDT by bestintxas
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday finalized “cross-state air pollution” regulations designed to drive coal-plant operators out of business. This noxious rule will choke job creation and ensure that consumers are stricken with higher utility bills every time they switch on the mercury-filled curlicue light bulbs they also will be forced to buy.
Beginning Jan. 1, industrial facilities in 28 Eastern and Central states will be subject to draconian restrictions on emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, pollutants that potentially can cross borders. It’s all being done in the name of promoting health, but an overzealous and unaccountable bureaucracy is ignoring the devastating toll on the economy’s wellness.
Coal plants will be forced to install new scrubber equipment that provides marginal improvement in air quality at tremendous expense. This cost will be passed along to the consumer in the form of higher electricity costs. NERA Economic Consulting studied the impact of a pair of EPA rules affecting coal and estimated the extra cost would total $184 billion through the year 2030. This includes $72 billion in capital costs that coal companies will have to pay right now to comply. Electric bills will jump 12 percent by 2016 with areas such as Kentucky and Tennessee seeing a 24 percent increase. Employment will drop by a net 1.4 million jobs.
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He is a man of his word after all.
Does anyone know where thereis video of him saying he would bankrupt the coal plants?
The GOP has ready-made commercials for next year from this bozo
1.4mm?
That’s pretty short................
“...electricity costs will necessarily skyrocket...”
Game over..................
Great! Electric bill is already high. Can’t wait till it “skyrockets”.......I guess it was “necessary”.
that brown cloud over us will be coming from China
since obama took office, coal sales to China have gone up greatly - folks here notced shipping unusually heavy in the Chesapeae Bay, found much of it due to coal shipping to China - coincidence eh? Port facilities in NW also being expanded to expedite shipping our resources to China. The UMW doesn’t know (or care) it is working as coolies for China
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/science/earth/22fossil.html
Texas was added at the last minute, not part of the original public hearings, etc. Look for Texas to file suit
Effing EPA needs to be regulated.
It needs to be eliminated.
If conservatives ever gain control of this fedgov again, it needs to be dismantled.
It’s not enough to remove the leftists from the unaccountable positions of power over others that they gravitate to, those positions of power must be eliminated to prevent them from ever getting power over us again.
You peaple are all the same...
Wait until the 56 mpg mandate hits the auto industry.
When I was a kid, I used to wonder why the Russian people put up with the miserable living conditions imposed on them by the Soviet system. Now I see that we are doing the same. I never thought it would happen here.
“The GOP has ready-made commercials for next year from this bozo.”
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Yes, but to actually run them and grind this RaceMarxist into the ground, the aisle-crossing appeasers would first have to have their testicles descend into place.
Lots of weirdness going on.
Just the other day the Michigan DEQ gave final approval for a new coal fired plant in Rogers City. Yet a couple of years ago they denied the permit due to a lack of demand.
Personally I think the new coal plant will be little more than a means of making wind appear profitable. I know wind supporters have pushed to force coal and gas fired plants to pay the fees that result lack of wind.
Simple Solution: Defund the EPA!
How: Don’t raise the debt ceiling!
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