Obama's big "Climate Change" crackdown on coal industry readies for launch

[Little-Acorn]

Yep, the myriad regulations that are already strangling the coal industry and causing widespread poverty and unemploymen tin places like West Virginia, were just a warmup. The BIG crackdown comes next month.

How long will it be before liberals start telling us Obama knew nothing about it, it was just the EPA's doing?

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President Obama?s big carbon crackdown readies for launch - Erica Martinson - POLITICO.com

President Obama’s big carbon crackdown readies for launch

The move could produce a dramatic makeover of the power industry.
By ERICA MARTINSON | 5/16/14 7:20 PM EDT

The EPA will launch the most dramatic anti-pollution regulation in a generation early next month, a sweeping crackdown on carbon that offers President Barack Obama his last real shot at a legacy on climate change — while causing significant political peril for red-state Democrats.

The move could produce a dramatic makeover of the power industry, shifting it away from coal-burning plants toward natural gas, solar and wind. While this is the big move environmentalists have been yearning for, it also has major political implications in November for a president already under fire for what the GOP is branding a job-killing “War on Coal,” and promises to be an election issue in energy-producing states such as West Virginia, Kentucky and Louisiana.

The EPA’s proposed rule is aimed at scaling back carbon emissions from existing power plants, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gases. It’s scheduled for a public rollout June 2, after months of efforts by the administration to publicize the mounting scientific evidence that rising seas, melting glaciers and worsening storms pose a danger to human society.

“This rule is the most significant climate action this administration will take,” said Kyle Aarons at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, one of a host of groups awaiting the rule’s release. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has urged the EPA to “go ahead boldly” with the rule, saying the agency must step in where Congress has refused to act.

But for coal country, the rule is yet another indignity for an industry already facing a wave of power plant shutdowns amid hostile market forces and a series of separate EPA air regulations.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Why were coal mining communities always abysmally poor...even before Obama was ever born?

"Maybeury is an unincorporated census-designated place in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States, located on US Route 52 between Northfork and Bramwell. As of the 2010 census, its population was 234. In 1890, it was the largest town in McDowell County with a population of 875. This was due to the coal mining start-ups in the town. Maybeury was the 5th largest town/city south of the State Capital, Charleston, and listed as the 31st largest town/city in the entire state.

""John F. Kennedy stopped in Maybeury at the Esso station during his presidential primary campaign in 1960. During a speech in Canton, Ohio on September 27, 1960, he stated “McDowell County mines more coal than it ever has in its history, probably more coal than any county in the United States and yet there are more people getting surplus food packages in McDowell County than any county in the United States. The reason is that machines are doing the jobs of men, and we have not been able to find jobs for those men.”

The coal mining industry has defiled the countryside, killed its employees with impunity and kept them isolated, ignorant and very, very poor.....But you go ahead and blame Obama, idiot.



You think this is a healthy work environment? Do you think the coal companies gave a shit about these people?

 

[OKTexas]

It's getting about time the states just tell the mulatto messiah and his regime to fuck off, lawlessness can be a two way street. If he wants to ignore the law and try to expand the power of the executive beyond it's legal limits the states have every right to ignore him.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[The T]

It's getting about time the states just tell the mulatto messiah and his regime to fuck off, lawlessness can be a two way street. If he wants to ignore the law and try to expand the power of the executive beyond it's legal limits the states have every right to ignore him.

Yes they do. This government has launched an unwarranted WAR against peaceful commerce, Liberty, freedom. And with the States being sovereigns? It's past due for them to fire back and assert their authority.

 

[The T]

Yep, the myriad regulations that are already strangling the coal industry and causing widespread poverty and unemploymen tin places like West Virginia, were just a warmup. The BIG crackdown comes next month.

How long will it be before liberals start telling us Obama knew nothing about it, it was just the EPA's doing?

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President Obama?s big carbon crackdown readies for launch - Erica Martinson - POLITICO.com

President Obama’s big carbon crackdown readies for launch

The move could produce a dramatic makeover of the power industry.
By ERICA MARTINSON | 5/16/14 7:20 PM EDT

The EPA will launch the most dramatic anti-pollution regulation in a generation early next month, a sweeping crackdown on carbon that offers President Barack Obama his last real shot at a legacy on climate change — while causing significant political peril for red-state Democrats.

The move could produce a dramatic makeover of the power industry, shifting it away from coal-burning plants toward natural gas, solar and wind. While this is the big move environmentalists have been yearning for, it also has major political implications in November for a president already under fire for what the GOP is branding a job-killing “War on Coal,” and promises to be an election issue in energy-producing states such as West Virginia, Kentucky and Louisiana.

The EPA’s proposed rule is aimed at scaling back carbon emissions from existing power plants, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gases. It’s scheduled for a public rollout June 2, after months of efforts by the administration to publicize the mounting scientific evidence that rising seas, melting glaciers and worsening storms pose a danger to human society.

“This rule is the most significant climate action this administration will take,” said Kyle Aarons at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, one of a host of groups awaiting the rule’s release. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has urged the EPA to “go ahead boldly” with the rule, saying the agency must step in where Congress has refused to act.

But for coal country, the rule is yet another indignity for an industry already facing a wave of power plant shutdowns amid hostile market forces and a series of separate EPA air regulations.

The EPA is his weapon. I think The House should defund the EPA post haste, AND audit the Hell out of them. Call them on the carpet.

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[R.C. Christian]

That punk ass commie bitch is going to triple our electric bills. They used to hang people for less.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Remember, Obama did fundamentally transform America and he never said things would be better

 

[ScienceRocks]

Wind is dead in America. Honestly, it is doing worse then anytime since 2004. Solar is a long ways from replacing it...

So what's going to replace the coal? Natural gas prices are going up so it isn't cutting into coal like it was....

 

[SFC Ollie]

But, they will soon be ready with the excuses and somehow blame the right for it.........

It has to be bush's fault..........

 

[Kosh]

Yes higher energy prices always helps the poor.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Wind energy had 200 mw from January - April. This is the worst since 2004. Solar construction is about 1/2 to 1/3rd the mw of wind...

Hydro hasn't been added in decades
Nuclear hasn't been added in decades
The price for natural gas is up

So yep, cost will likely go up.

 

[NLT]

I cant wait for the liberals to start moaning and groaning when the brown outs come, no internet, no wifi, no sattelite tv, no where to charge the electric cars, no way to charge the cell phones.....NO AC

 

[The T]

I cant wait for the liberals to start moaning and groaning when the brown outs come, no internet, no wifi, no sattelite tv, no where to charge the electric cars, no way to charge the cell phones.....NO AC

And they can't say they weren't warned from day one. But they'll find a way to blame Bush, and Conservatives...

 

[The T]

Yes higher energy prices always helps the poor.

"Unintended consequences..."

 

[ScienceRocks]

Build nuclear now!

 

[Kosh]

Oh my the AGW cult wants nuclear?

So instead of pollution we can have 5000 year radiation zones. I am sure that will be good for the environment. Be great for the health of the poor as well. And with all the regulations in place and disposal, etc. Nuclear is far more expensive.

So yet again higher energy prices helps the poor.

For the far left to claim they want to help the poor, they sure go out of their way to make it even harder on them.

 

[The T]

Oh my the AGW cult wants nuclear?

So instead of pollution we can have 5000 year radiation zones. I am sure that will be good for the environment. Be great for the health of the poor as well. And with all the regulations in place and disposal, etc. Nuclear is far more expensive.

So yet again higher energy prices helps the poor.

For the far left to claim they want to help the poor, they sure go out of their way to make it even harder on them.

They're confused...and grasping at anything that sounds good. They don't think.

 

[Listening]

A convenient lie - John Stossel - Page 1

Why don't we hear about this part of the global warming argument?

"It's the money!" says Dr. Baliunas. "Twenty-five billion dollars in government funding has been spent since 1990 to research global warming. If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn't be as much money to study it."

 

[The T]

A convenient lie - John Stossel - Page 1

Why don't we hear about this part of the global warming argument?

"It's the money!" says Dr. Baliunas. "Twenty-five billion dollars in government funding has been spent since 1990 to research global warming. If scientists and researchers were coming out releasing reports that global warming has little to do with man, and most to do with just how the planet works, there wouldn't be as much money to study it."

Yep. The 'Scientists' have to make a living somehow...shame it has to be off of taxpayers...they need to be cut off.