For every coal-fired power plant the Cadaver terminates, China will fire up two more. Net effect on emissions? Leftists are all in the 3rd grade or lower.
You are right but the toxic run off from their ash piles will be in China’s water supply not ours, same for the mercury from the stack vapor will be in their fresh water lakes not ours. They will have black skys and eye watering smog and acid rain and fish with such high mercury you can’t eat it.
The last point is already a problem here. Canyon Lake Texas has such high mercury you can’t eat the bass from it because its watershed was in the ashfall shadow of a coal plant for 40 years all the mercury rained down into it and forever contaminated the sediments and food web. SMU did the isotopic analysis for where the mercury came from it was directly linked by isotope to the coal plant up wind. I know about that work because I know the PhD geochemistry expert who did it they are a colleague and friend of mine at the PhD level which we both hold more than one of.
Have you ever been to China the pollution is eye watering and enough to make one’s lungs hurt just breathing. The EPA keeps us from having that here any more we used to have pollution of the same levels in the North Eastern USA.
They are not even telling the coal plants here they have to go to zero heavy metal emissions only a 67% reduction. There is no safe level of heavy metal intake into the human body. Every other form of power already is zero emissions of heavy metals so why should coal get a pass on it’s huge amounts of toxic ash, water run off and stack vapors. No other power source does just because it’s grandfathered in they get to emit what all others would be shut down today for in hours not years. The fact that they are getting ten years for compliance says they are getting special treatment.
All of these are real pollution sources with zero to do with CO2.
A final rule strengthening and updating the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired power plants, tightening the emissions standard for toxic metals by 67 percent and finalizing a 70 percent reduction in the emissions standard for mercury from existing lignite-fired sources.
A final rule to reduce pollutants discharged through wastewater from coal-fired power plants by more than 660 million pounds per year, ensuring cleaner water for affected communities, including communities with environmental justice concerns that are disproportionately impacted.
A final rule that will require the safe management of coal ash that is placed in areas that were unregulated at the federal level until now, including at previously used disposal areas that may leak and contaminate groundwater.