EPA Is Set to Roll Back Restrictions on Coal-Burning Power Plants

[Wingnut]

Alrighty!   Love this stuff.   

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By Timothy Puko
Aug. 18, 2018 3:53 p.m. ET
The Trump administration is escalating an effort to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry with a planned move next week to replace restrictive Obama-era climate policies with new rules designed to help coal-burning plants run harder and stay open longer.

The proposed new rules, which the Environmental Protection Agency plans is expected to release within days, would be the latest in a series of reversals of policies the Obama administration adopted to slow climate change. It would replace the agency’s so-called Clean Power Plan for the electricity business with regulations that cede power to states, and could ultimately lead to more heat-trapping gases going into the atmosphere even as it sets parameters to boost efficiency at coal-fired power plants.

President Trump has repeatedly promised to support coal, an industry beset by a shrinking customer base, competition, falling prices and bankruptcies; the plan may be his administration’s most ambitious effort yet to kill regulations on coal’s behalf.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/epa-is-set-to-roll-back-restrictions-on-coal-burning-power-plants-1534622001

[Bigun]

Bring it on!   Sooner rather than later!

[Fishrrman]

I agree, Bigun.

There are some in this forum who -- only a year ago -- were claiming that coal's days were over.

I said then, "not so".

America's long-term energy future remains.... coal.
We've got more of it than ANYTHING else, enough for hundreds of years.

The technology for mining it safely and burning it cleanly has never been better.
Load up them coal trains!

[Wingnut]

I agree, Bigun.

There are some in this forum who -- only a year ago -- were claiming that coal's days were over.

I said then, "not so".

America's long-term energy future remains.... coal.
We've got more of it than ANYTHING else, enough for hundreds of years.

The technology for mining it safely and burning it cleanly has never been better.
Load up them coal trains!

And they kissed American Steel goodbye too.   Unraveling the O'Bastard depression years one step at a time.

[Bigun]

I agree, Bigun.

There are some in this forum who -- only a year ago -- were claiming that coal's days were over.

I said then, "not so".

America's long-term energy future remains.... coal.
We've got more of it than ANYTHING else, enough for hundreds of years.

The technology for mining it safely and burning it cleanly has never been better.
Load up them coal trains!

It would be abjectly stupid to kill off the biggest source of energy you have and especially so in the name of a complete fiction.