Bummer: Trump EPA Looks To Remove Greenhouse Gas Limits On Power Plants

I’ll say again that I am no fan of coal, because it does create dirty air and despoils the land. But, CO2? Nah. The NY Times is very upset over this, despite none of them giving up their own use of what they call “dirty” energy

Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

In its proposed regulation, the agency argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants that burn fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or to climate change because they are a small and declining share of global emissions. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, the agency said.

But in the United States, the power sector was the second biggest source of greenhouse gases, behind transportation, according to the most recent data available on the E.P.A. website. And globally, power plants account for about 30 percent of the pollution that is driving climate change.

What will you do without power? Natural gas is cheap, abundant, affordable, and easy. The power plants have small footprints, unlike solar and wind. And provide a hell of a lot more power for the cost and footprint. Maybe if the Warmists would let us build nuclear power plants we could have what they call sustainable power.

The E.P.A. sent the draft to the White House for review on May 2. It could undergo changes before it is formally released and the public is given the opportunity to offer comments, likely in June.

The proposed regulation is part of a broader attack by the Trump administration on the established science that greenhouse gases threaten human health and the environment. Scientists have overwhelmingly concluded that carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases from the burning of oil, gas and coal are dangerously heating the planet.

It was once established science that the world was flat, that the Sun went around the Earth, and that witches floated.

The Trump administration is methodically uprooting policies aimed at curbing climate change, and the E.P.A. is at the epicenter of that effort. In recent weeks, Mr. Zeldin has shuttered offices responsible for regulating climate and air pollution, and has launched the repeal of more than two dozen regulations and policies.

I’m actually rather surprised that Trump and his folks are missing the opportunity to tell Warmists to practice what they preach. To give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral.

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