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E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule

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ElectricBlanketFire

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Are you ready for some clean coal?

New York Times said:
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Monday that it would take formal steps to repeal President Barack Obama's signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, setting up a bitter fight over the future of America's efforts to tackle global warming.

At an event in eastern Kentucky, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that his predecessors had departed from regulatory norms in crafting the Clean Power Plan, which was finalized in 2015 and would have pushed states to move away from coal in favor of sources of electricity that produce fewer carbon emissions.

”The war on coal is over," Mr. Pruitt said. ”Tomorrow in Washington D.C., I will be signing a proposed rule to roll back the Clean Power Plan. No better place to make that announcement than Hazard, Kentucky."

The repeal proposal, which will be filed in the Federal Register Tuesday, fulfills a promise President Trump made to eradicate his predecessor's environmental legacy. Eliminating the Clean Power Plan makes it less likely the United States can fulfill its promise as part of the Paris climate agreement to ratchet down emissions that are warming the planet and contributing to heat waves and sea-level rise. Mr. Trump has vowed to abandon that international accord.

In announcing the repeal, Mr. Pruitt made many of the same arguments that he had made for years to Congress and in lawsuits: that the Obama administration exceeded its legal authority in an effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. (Last year, the Supreme Court blocked the rule from taking effect while courts assessed those lawsuits.) A leaked draft of the repeal proposal asserts that the country would save $33 billion by not complying with the regulation and rejects the health benefits the Obama administration had calculated from the original rule.

Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A. Agenda in Secret, Critics Say AUG. 11, 2017
Coal- and natural-gas-fired power plants are responsible for about one-third of America's carbon dioxide emissions. When the Clean Power Plan was unveiled in 2015, it was expected to cut power sector emissions 32 percent by 2030, relative to 2005. While many states are already shifting away from coal power for economic reasons, experts say scrapping the rule could slow that transition.
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jelly

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They are just making lives worse by trying to back coal. It's stupid and pointless. Invest in new tech, create new jobs that don't kill you and maybe not find yourself years behind other countries because you stuck to coal.
 
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SoundofSilence

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”The war on coal is over," Mr. Pruitt said. ”Tomorrow in Washington D.C., I will be signing a proposed rule to roll back the Clean Power Plan. No better place to make that announcement than Hazard, Kentucky."
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If you didn't know better, it was if every member of the Trump Administration was vying for a supremacy in a winner take all battle for the title of "Supreme Asshole of the Universe".
 
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SilentRob

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The United States are without a doubt the biggest threats not only to world security but to the future of the planet.
 
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Oberon

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couldn't find a better version
 
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BriGuy

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"The Environmental Protection Agency is no longer in the business of protecting the environment. We're still an agency though!"
 
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HazySaiyan

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Environmental "Protection" Agency.

Thanks America for voting in a clown that just does the opposite of what Obama did out of spite, the rest of the world really appreciates it.
 
Goro Majima

Goro Majima

Kitty Genovese Member
Really wish Obama had a Democratic Congress for longer than he did so that some of this shit could have been made law instead of being regulation that can change at the whims of a radical right wing president.
 
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captive

Joe Six-Pack: posting for the common man
well, he's not wrong, the war on coal is over, the free market decided, we don't want coal.
 
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Electric Eye

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Go ahead and declare the war on coal over make it official so that when that industry crumbles they won't be able to blame it on democrats.
 
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Shadybiz

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Correct; the war on coal is over. The market decided to move away from it. There is no saving those jobs...it's done. Now it's just about undoing Obama's legacy.
 
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Future

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Envelope said:
No better place than Hazard, Kentucky, indeed
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Almost reads like parody

Also only republicans can swoon at repelling things with names like “Clean Power Plan.” Hopefully next they can repel things like “People deserve to eat” and “justice for all”
 
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theWB27

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They're going to "surprised" when no one wants to work in these factories and businesses continue to move the fuck on.
 
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Star Orpheus

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So when coal is no longer a viable fuel source compared to more environmentally safe and efficient mean what will their excuse be?
 
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Hagi

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The war on coal was over ages ago all you are really doing is trying to appease those who can't accept that and line your pockets at the same time. Transparent fuckwit.
 
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shintoki

sparkle this bitch
This is the thing. It doesn't even fucking matter. All the biggest industries in the country are in Blue states or leaning heavily towards Renewables. This is just propping up dinosaurs with no chance of expansion since the International community is also looking towards renewables. They have no place to expand.

The war ended years ago. Coal is dead. The people in the industry had a chance to transfer to a new one, but doubling down on it means they too can go the way of the DoDo
 
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SliceSabre

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I'm so glad our department in the government that is supposed to protect our enviroment is helping our coal industry destroy it. This is the true purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency.
 
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djplaeskool

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Coal died a while ago, so this attempt to reanimate its corpse is hilarious.
Hopefully the states and municipalities that promoted sticking with the Clean Power schedule stick with it.

So...
When was the last time an industrial nation willingly backtracked on environmental policy to such a degree?
 
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Angelus Errare

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USA is what happens when racism is at the foundation of EVERYTHING you without ever confronting said racism.

Cautionary tale for whatever empire rises from America's ashes
 
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Geist-

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What next, major restrictions on wind and solar so Coal can be competitive again? It doesn't matter what they do now, Coal is dying.

Still, fuck Trump.
 
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Kill Your Masters

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shintoki said:
This is the thing. It doesn't even fucking matter. All the biggest industries in the country are in Blue states or leaning heavily towards Renewables. This is just propping up dinosaurs with no chance of expansion since the International community is also looking towards renewables.

The war ended years ago. Coal is dead. The people in the industry had a chance to transfer to a new one, but doubling down on it means they too can go the way of the DoDo
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Aye, this is nothing more than a show for the braindead inbred idiots that voted for them.

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Just look at them. I'd feel sorry for them if they didn't vote for this mess. Have fun on food stamps and poverty you fucks, because coal ain't coming back and the renewable train is leaving the station without you.
 
SolidSnakeUS

SolidSnakeUS

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Shake Appeal said:
Reminder that more people work for Arby's than work in the coal industry.
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Our government literally going out of their way to try to support a completely dying industry that will never, EVER come back to what it was before. If anything, I could see the coal industry become almost nothing in the next 20 years and it's not just that we're pushing it out, it's also that there are way, way more and more lucrative jobs elsewhere, such as with wind and solar energy. Safer, more jobs and overall cheaper in the long run for companies and consumers. But you know, being paid off and having an extreme backwards thinking of the way the world works does this to you.
 
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