Getting ready for a wave of EPA coal-plant shutdowns

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Getting ready for a wave of EPA coal-plant shutdowns

August 21st, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Brad Plumer
Washington Post
August 20, 2011

Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal ash—it’s all getting regulated. And, not surprisingly, some lawmakers are grumbling.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Industry groups such the Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, and the American Legislative Exchange Council have dubbed the coming rules “EPA’s Regulatory Train Wreck.” The regulations, they say, will cost utilities up to $129 billion and force them to retire one-fifth of coal capacity. Given that coal provides 45 percent of the country’s power, that means higher electric bills, more blackouts and fewer jobs. The doomsday scenario has alarmed Republicans in the House, who have been scrambling to block the measures. Environmental groups retort that the rules will bring sizeable public health benefits, and that industry groups have been exaggerating the costs of environmental regulations since they were first created.

So, who’s right? This month, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which conducts policy research for members of Congress, has been circulating a paper that tries to calmly sort through the shouting match. Thanks to The Hill’s Andrew Restuccia, it’s now available (PDF) for all to read. And the upshot is that CRS is awfully skeptical of the “train wreck” predictions.

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5 Responses to “Getting ready for a wave of EPA coal-plant shutdowns”

“The doomsday scenario has alarmed Republicans in the House, who have been scrambling to block the measures”

SP certified Triple AAA Bullshit. Anyone believing this line need to stop their lithium treatments. All Americans that seem not to care about this stuff………

STAND BY.
- Yeah batten down the hatches, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride especially with the shillery Contrib to Ron Paul: 6 minutes left almost 1.5 million!
Here in Washington (state) they closed a local coal about 4 years ago (one of many statewide), just days before I moved here. 300+ unemployed in a very small town and higher electric prices. I have not been able to find work here in the entire 4 years.

Since then they’ve closed down many more coal plants in the state. The first year I was here my electric bill averaged $45 a month. Now it is around $180. Competition for crappy, part-time minimum wage jobs is in the thousands.

And I watch the trains heaped with China-bound coal going by every day.
They just Destroyed the coal burning power plant in Riviera Beach Fl 2 months ago to Build a “new one” im sure the “new NUCLEAR” Plant will be further from the Island of Palm Beach though hehe
I live in coal country and Obama is definitely hated here. The Bad thing about it is the people of West Virginia keep voting back in office one of his globalist co-horts, Senator Jay Rockefeller. Rockefeller has Not opposed Obama on any of the EPA standings and i see all the time mines being closed due to revoked federal permits. Here in this state we need to vote OUT the carpetbagger Rockefeller with his billion dollar empire. People need to wake up, coal is the future of America’s power.