https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmly433ke05voUS scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants
Rules aimed at limiting pollution from coal and gas power plants are being scrapped, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced.The agency says that getting rid of the majority of the Biden-era rules, aimed at improving health and curbing climate change, will save $310bn (£223bn) and lead to a decrease in energy prices."The reality is that America produces energy better and cleaner than anywhere else in the world, and our power plants should not be unfairly targeted," the head of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, said.Some have criticised the move, arguing it will affect public health and set back progress on developing renewable energy sources.Fossil fuels, which include coal and natural gas, are by far the largest driver of global climate change, according to the United Nations.The EPA said in a statement that it found the rules on power plant emissions that were introduced under former President Joe Biden had "exceeded the agency's authority" by "requiring control technologies that are not adequately demonstrated, effectively forcing plants to retire rather than setting standards they could actually meet".The EPA is also seeking to get rid of all other greenhouse gas rules for the power sector.The changes were proposed last year by Zeldin, who said they would "ensure affordable and reliable energy supplies and drive down the costs of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing while boosting our national security".The Biden-era regulations called for a major reduction in carbon emissions from power plants, as well as vehicles and industrial facilities. It was predicted that the measures would stop 4,500 premature deaths annually."Any potential public health harms are too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted to tie specifically to the US power sector," the EPA said on Monday
Nathaniel Keohane, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions – an independent environmental organisation – described the move as "a giant step backward"."In repealing carbon pollution standards for power plants, EPA has ignored sound science and economics and abdicated its responsibility to protect public health and welfare," Keohane added.The US is currently the second-biggest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, behind China.And the power sector makes up about a quarter of US emissions, at roughly 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent each year, according to the latest available estimates.That means the US power sector emissions are higher than the total emissions of all but a handful of countries.US power sector emissions have been generally falling over the past couple of decades, albeit with a slight uptick last year, as coal use has fallen.But Trump has long argued for a resurgence in coal power and has regularly criticised renewables such as wind and solar.The precise consequences of today's announcement for US emissions - and global climate change - are uncertain.Some researchers question whether coal will ever make the resurgence that Trump hopes for. They point to the sharp falls in costs of many clean technologies such as solar power over the past decade.Previous modelling by the independent Rhodium Group suggested rolling back US climate regulations would slow - but not reverse - emissions cuts there.In 2022, the EPA lost some of its powers to limit greenhouse gas emissions when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of 19 states and some of the nation's largest coal companies, which were worried about the economic cost of the policy and argued the agency did not have the authority to limit emissions across whole states.Monday's announcement is the latest move by President Donald Trump's administration to walk back policies designed to combat global warming and climate change.
In February, the EPA reversed a landmark Obama-era scientific ruling, which held that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. This was challenged by several states and local government....needed to make a separate post for one paragraph lol
>>1537147Good.
>>1537147The sky that never fell is in the same place, or even higher.>US power sector emissions have been generally falling over the past couple of decades, albeit with a slight uptick last year, as coal use has fallen.BBC=useless shit turds.
>>1537157Good for whom?
>>1537159Americans according to the article.>The EPA said that getting rid of the majority of the climate rules from President Joe Biden's era would save $310bn (£223bn) and reduce energy prices.But anyway, where's our clean nuclear power grid?I'm starting to fucking demand 90% or more of power is generated via nuclear.
>>1537159Good for pedophile enablers. ESL Shill's programmed defense mentions saving 300 billion on energy costs, but Trump has already cost this country that through his other fuckups. Tariffs alone stole this money and just handed it to corps for nothing.
>>1537160>The EPA said that getting rid of the majority of the climate rules from President Joe Biden's era would save $310bn (£223bn) and reduce energy prices.Yeah it saves money the same way getting rid of railings at factories save money.
>>1537162Not really though. But it exposes the fact that Democrats won't solve the 'affordability crisis' and them running on it is just the latest fucking scam.
>>1537160We can't have nuclear, solar, or wind. We are not allowed to keep up with the world leaders as we need to hand our entire future to them for the sake of the rich in Russia aswell as domestically.World leaders = China
>>1537164>Not really thoughYeah so when our major cities wind up like China did where you have to wear a mask to go outside because the smog is a health hazard, we'll remember "oh yeah we used to have laws to prevent this".Hell even without going to extremes, we've already seen time and time again that violating regulations lead to water getting poisoned by these exact kind of plants they're loosening restrictions on.
>>1537168I'll blame Democrats for acting like they could save us (which Trump did from hurricanes) and not building out nuclear power, favoring instead their solar and wind trash.
Billionaires running coal generators are paying to shill against actually cost effective energy sources too, it seems: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67367
>>1537199Great what's the maintenance schedule and cost look like compared to nuclear which is nearly free once established?
Who cares? Stop shitting up 4chan and go back
>>1537204it's your job to defend this esl shill, hurry up and inhale that billionaire semen
>the air is clean therefore we don’t need the rules that keep the air clean
>>1537249I mean not the Biden era rules that drove up the cost of energy for normal people.The same platform that Democrats are now advocating against.It's like they're fucking scammer pigs or something.
>>1537147GAYEST FAGGOT HERE!NO I did NOT read the article. Even if OP (a notable huge faggot) posted the text I still wouldn't have reddit.Being a HUGE GAY FAGGOT, I think this is substantial because I'm a fucking retard.Thanks for listening and FUCK CHUDS and FUCK TRUMP!
>>1537250Projection.
>>1537255Uh, not according to the article (You) >>1537252 didn't read.>getting rid of the majority of the climate rules from President Joe Biden's era would save $310bn (£223bn) and reduce energy prices.Uh-oh, Everything you believe is a lie.
>>1537255that is his first language after all
>>1537260Projection.
>>1537260misleading as fuck statistic. This shit is like saying "you can massively save on operating costs for your business by not purchasing any safety equipment."
>>1537263Not really.
>>1537264>Not really.Nah that's exactly what it means you inbred buffoon. Getting rid of all safety and regulations on climate would indeed save a lot of money. It will also directly and indirectly kill a lot of people, and we, like your entire family, can only hope you're one of them. It's like getting rid of seatbelts and aribags in cars. It will certainly make cars cheaper, yeah.
>>1537265>The government lies>I hate dRumpf!>I'm also a socialist (Communist)>So just give all the tax money to the liars and allow the possibility of a Trump-like communist president so I don't have to work!!!Has the opinion of any liggeral ever been valid and worth listening too?
>>1537265Forgot to mention>Heed muh sloppery slip fallacy
>>1537266>>1537268you should've been sucking billionaire dick hours ago shill anon, this infraction will go on your record
>>1537266>some goofy nonsense about communistsEvery day you're alive is another day your mother regrets not aborting you.
>>1537270>Some absolutely baseless nonsense about seat belts in cars and people dying because of 2.5 year old regs being rolled back in a time when energy costs are sky rocketing (during Biden).Face it, you're the real CHUD. You'll never do anything but fuck the country up.
>>1537271>Face it, you're the real CHUD. You'll never do anything but fuck the country up.You happily suck on Lee Zeldin's syphilitic penis and beg for more. In public. Juste take a step back and think about that for a second.
>>1537273Zeldin is a fag, so it's likely he has STIs.I wouldn't expect other fags to be such CHUDs about it though.The thing that terrifies me most about liggerals, like you, is that you'll burn down everything just to attain power.And once you attain power, you'll enact terrible policies consistently proven not to work.What in the fuck is wrong with you people?
>>1537274>The thing that terrifies me most about liggerals, like you, is that you'll burn down everything just to attain power.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced."You're apparently way too inbred ot understand the laughable irony of making this argument in a thread about how the government whose anus you joyfully tongue has scrapped "rules aimed at limiting pollution from coal and gas power plants".Just kill yourself ASAP for the planet's sake.
>>1537275These regs are 2.5 years old you gayass faggot.
>>1537147>The Repeal: The EPA removed the Biden-era rule that forced coal and new natural gas plants to cut 90% of carbon pollution using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.Oh no. We're all going to coof to died.
>>1537274>The thing that terrifies me most about liggerals, like you, is that you'll burn down everything just to attain power.>And once you attain power, you'll enact terrible policies consistently proven not to work.Projection.
>>1537287nope
>>1537276>These regs are 2.5 years oldYeah only because Trump killed them in his first term, because he's a fucking idiot who seems to be under the impression we can just keep pumping pollution into the air and will never wind up in a situation like China where major cities are filled with so much smog you're effectively required to wear a mask to filter out the worst of it.
>>1537294It's not that he thinks that can't happen, it's that he doesn't think about that at all. He does not give a single shit.
>>1537294Are you like a 12 year old ignorant of how LA used to be back in the mid 90s?EPA is working, you diaper baby. And this is part of the affordability crisis Joe Biden cause back in 2022-2023. And your party is running on affordability.Therefore you either support this, or you're full if shit (the latter, obviously).
>>1537340God you're esl
>>1537340>EPA is working, you diaper baby. It was. Trump broke it. He tends to do that.>And this is part of the affordability crisis Joe Biden cause back in 2022-2023.Covid.
>>1537340>And this is part of the affordability crisis Joe Biden cause back in 2022-2023>And not the affordability crisis Trump is causing right now
>>1537358There is no affordability crisis under President Trump. Gas is only 2 bucks a gallon in red states. Try not living in commiefornia
>>1537363you are one of the least believable shills ever and you should feel bad
>>1537363>Gas is only 2 bucks a gallon in red states.May I see it?
>>1537366ESL shill knows its not true. They want you to call them a liar so they can indulge in their humiliation fetish. The real question is why you want to finger the shill in public
>>1537366The shill thinks shouting this post-ceasefire shit is still cool.
>>1537368Maybe he just came here for an argument. If you want to argue with somebody the ESL shill can never submit to defeat, as he continually comes up with rebuttals wether of merit or not.
>>1537366President Trump confirmed it on a FOX News interview a few weeks ago.
>>1537375so no proof
>>1537376I just provided you the proof.
>>1537375>President Trump confirmed it on a FOX News interview a few weeks ago.Ok so then you should be able to pull it up on a gas price monitoring site, right?
>>1537377proof that you're not american, yes
>>1537379>Jeet mean victory, saar.>You are the cuking>I shit up board like it was street
it's always funny when esl shill is racist to himself
>>1537363>There is no affordability crisis under President Trump.So this year you started sucking off sailors for 10 bucks a pop just for fun then? We all thought it was because you couldn't afford groceries on your Wendy's salary.
>>1537147Jesus Christ you absolute dips. The sun is free energy and we have thousands upon thousands of sq. Miles of sunny desert we're not using anyway.
