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Obama to use executive authority to regulate carbon emissions
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:35 pm
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President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s 600 coal-fired power plants, in a speech that government analysts in Beijing, Brussels and beyond will scrutinize to determine how serious the president is about fighting global warming.
The regulation will be Mr. Obama’s most forceful effort to reverse 20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil that scientists say cause warming.
The president had tried, without success, to move a climate change bill through Congress in his first term, and such legislation would now stand no chance of getting past the resistance of Republican lawmakers who question the science of climate change. So Mr. Obama is taking a controversial step: He is using his executive authority under the 1970 Clean Air Act to issue an E.P.A. regulation taking aim at coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest source of carbon pollution.
President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s 600 coal-fired power plants, in a speech that government analysts in Beijing, Brussels and beyond will scrutinize to determine how serious the president is about fighting global warming.
The regulation will be Mr. Obama’s most forceful effort to reverse 20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil that scientists say cause warming.
The president had tried, without success, to move a climate change bill through Congress in his first term, and such legislation would now stand no chance of getting past the resistance of Republican lawmakers who question the science of climate change. So Mr. Obama is taking a controversial step: He is using his executive authority under the 1970 Clean Air Act to issue an E.P.A. regulation taking aim at coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest source of carbon pollution.
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:36 pm to PuntBamaPunt
Who died and left this SOB to be king?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:38 pm to PuntBamaPunt
What happens when we reach the point where additional carbon in the atmosphere won't contribute any more warming? Does the tax to away?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:53 pm to PuntBamaPunt
Obama is such a pro-worker president, isn't he?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:55 pm to PuntBamaPunt
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20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil that scientists say cause warming.
What? The US has been a bigger obstacle than China or Russia?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:56 pm to MFn GIMP
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20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil that scientists say cause warming.
That sentence is something.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:59 pm to PuntBamaPunt
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effort to reverse 20 years of relative inaction on climate change
The US has made no changes in 20 years?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:02 pm to wickowick
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The US has made no changes in 20 years?
"relative inaction"...so i guess compared to everyone else.
which is total bullshite.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:02 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Obama is such a pro-worker president, isn't he?
I sense major sarcasm but like all socialist they talk a good game of being for the "worker" as they place record people on the government dole.
It's how socialist roll. Their actions are usually the opposite of their words.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:03 pm to PuntBamaPunt
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20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil
This is absolute nonsense.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:04 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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That sentence is something.
NYT gonna NYT
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:07 pm to GoBigOrange86
Obama is so fricking stupid. It's embarrassing.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:08 pm to PuntBamaPunt
If that happens the House should vote to abolish the EPA and send it to the Senate.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:08 pm to Y.A. Tittle
"20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil that scientists say cause warming."
As opposed to simply looking at the data.
Total carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of energy In Millions of metric tons.
China 2007-6,326.365 2011-8,715.307
US 2007-6,026.284 2011-5,490.631
Source
Also, China is the world's largest consumer of coal, which is its main energy source, and is responsible for around half the world's coal consumption. The impacts of its reliance on coal are becoming more well known and recently there was much online discussion after an eight-year-old girl was diagnosed with lung cancer which her doctor blamed on air pollution.
According to Gray's study, while the growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal-fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year.
source
As opposed to simply looking at the data.
Total carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of energy In Millions of metric tons.
China 2007-6,326.365 2011-8,715.307
US 2007-6,026.284 2011-5,490.631
Source
Also, China is the world's largest consumer of coal, which is its main energy source, and is responsible for around half the world's coal consumption. The impacts of its reliance on coal are becoming more well known and recently there was much online discussion after an eight-year-old girl was diagnosed with lung cancer which her doctor blamed on air pollution.
According to Gray's study, while the growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal-fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year.
source
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:10 pm to PuntBamaPunt
I don't really care about the restrictions either way, but I do hope this makes it up to the Supreme Court so we can get some guidance on where executive orders stop and legislation starts.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:15 pm to boosiebadazz
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but I do hope this makes it up to the Supreme Court so we can get some guidance on where executive orders stop and legislation starts.
should never NEED to get to that step. EO's are out of control
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:17 pm to boosiebadazz
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I do hope this makes it up to the Supreme Court so we can get some guidance on where executive orders stop and legislation starts.
Way past time for EOs to be curtailed for good.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:18 pm to bleeng
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"20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest obstacle to international efforts to slow the rise of heat-trapping gases from burning coal and oil that scientists say cause warming." As opposed to simply looking at the data. Total carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of energy In Millions of metric tons. China 2007-6,326.365 2011-8,715.307 US 2007-6,026.284 2011-5,490.631 Source Also, China is the world's largest consumer of coal, which is its main energy source, and is responsible for around half the world's coal consumption. The impacts of its reliance on coal are becoming more well known and recently there was much online discussion after an eight-year-old girl was diagnosed with lung cancer which her doctor blamed on air pollution. According to Gray's study, while the growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal-fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year. source
this. it does not matter what the USA does. until China, India, and other countries with lots of manufacturing do anything, what we try o eliminate in CO2 output does not mean a thing.
BTW global warming is a crock of shite anyway.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:41 pm to PuntBamaPunt
Ok, so energy prices go through the roof. Now what?
If there was ever a war on the poor, this would absolutely be it.
If there was ever a war on the poor, this would absolutely be it.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:48 pm to upgrayedd
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