Topic: The EPA Truly Hates This Nation

[oldcoastie6468]

New EPA Rules Would Effectively Kill Coal

January 8, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk 
 
Environmental Protection Agency regulatory proposals published in the Federal Register Wednesday detail the agency’s plan to effectively ban the construction of new coal fired plants in the U.S. unless they include clean coal technology.

The new rules would require new coal plants to meet emissions standards that many people in the coal industry say are unachievable using current technology. New plants would be forced to incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS), a costly and unproven “family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of CO? from fuel combustion or industrial processes.”

“By requiring CCS, EPA is placing a de facto ban on the construction of new coal-fueled power plants, handing over leadership of the development of CCS, and an estimated $1 trillion in economic benefits, to countries like China,” said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.

http://personalliberty.com/2014/01/08/new-epa-rules-would-effectively-kill-coal/

[AlanS]

No surprise there. The EPA has been leading the destruction of the country for decades.

[Libertas]

Yes, and coal has been in progressive crosshairs for 50 years.

[IronDioPriest]

*sigh* I'll say it again. A state (like WV for example) needs to step up, publicly announce a refusal to obey EPA edicts without identical legislation from congress, publicly assure coal producing companies that they may proceed without fear of reprisal, and pass a law with teeth assuring any federal agencies that attempt to enforce EPA edicts will be met with prison.

Protect mines with county sheriffs, and if need be with National Guard.

[oldcoastie6468]

WV has refused landing permission for AF1 and told them to go to some other state and to NOT venture into WV since their safety could not and would not be guaranteed. The hillbillies and coal miners are super pissed off.

[Glock32]

Then maybe the morons should stop electing Democrats.  Just a thought.

[Libertas]

Yeah, that's the home state of the former Grand Kleagle Robert "Sheets" Byrd and they keep electing one dumbass democrat after another...at some point you have to accept responsibility and realize that you yourself are part of the problem.

Nah, screw that...easier to piss and moan!