EPA to Power Plants: Flood the Air With As Much Coal and Oil Smog As You Like
The Environmental Protection Agency’s name continues to get more oxymoronic under Donald Trump, with the agency now planning to abandon any and all restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions for coal and oil power plants. “In fact, if all carbon dioxides were eliminated tomorrow, there would be no meaningful climate impact.” That is not a fact, obviously. As the Times noted, if the U.S. power sector was measured separately from the rest of the U.S. economy, it would be the fifth-largest climate polluter on the planet behind China, all other U.S. emissions, India, and Russia.
- ▪The Environmental Protection Agency’s name continues to get more oxymoronic under Donald Trump, with the agency now planning to abandon any and all restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions for coal and oil power plants.
- ▪“In fact, if all carbon dioxides were eliminated tomorrow, there would be no meaningful climate impact.” That is not a fact, obviously.
- ▪As the Times noted, if the U.S. power sector was measured separately from the rest of the U.S. economy, it would be the fifth-largest climate polluter on the planet behind China, all other U.S. emissions, India, and Russia.
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s name continues to get more oxymoronic under Donald Trump, with the agency now planning to abandon any and all restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions for coal and oil power plants. The New York Times reported this week that EPA administrator Lee Zeldin told attendees at a Group of 20 meeting in Houston, Texas, that Barack Obama’s and Joe Biden’s administrations had waged a “war on coal.” In a statement to the Times, the EPA lied, claiming that carbon and climate are essentially…
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