have you noticed the list of what they say the Pres. is doing that is contrary to your health and well being is so much smaller than the list of the things they are doing that has a negative effect on your health and well being?
The Obama administration isn’t blinking as it moves to rein in the carbon pollution that causes climate change.On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced updated draft rulessetting a limit on the amount of carbon dioxide that new power plants can emit.As EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told the National Press Club Friday morning, these are the “first uniform national limits on carbon pollution for new plants.” Currently, CO2 is totally unregulated from new and existing power plants.“We all know this is not just about melting glaciers,” McCarthy said. “This is one of the most significant public health threats of our time.”
looking out for your future by preserving clean air and water this is your Pres. and his admin working for you. btw what have the republicans done for you say in 5 years?
This is EPA’s first step under President Obama’s Climate Action Plan announced in June. The President said he wanted rules for both new and existing power plants settled by the time he leaves office. Last year, the agency offered up draft rules for public discussion, and received over 2 million public comments. EPA has now come back with revised rules that take into account this feedback from citizens and industry.
oh yeah, they have tried to kill "freedom killing" regulations what good is freedom if you are dead or dying? besides they are talking not about your freedom but big business's freedom to shortcut and dispose of waste in your backyard trash can.
The main difference is that the new rules have separate standards for coal and natural gas plants — and they are actually fairly simple. As currently outlined:
- All new power plants will be required to limit the amount of carbon dioxide they emit once the rules go into effect
- New large natural gas-fired power plants will have to limit CO2 emissions to 1,000 pounds per megawatt hour (smaller plants are limited to 1,100)
- New coal-fired plants will either have to emit only 1,100 pounds per megawatt hour over one year, or the plant can take 7 years to get average emissions down to 1,050 pounds per megawatt hour (more flexible than last year’s proposed rule)
doen't matter if it cost 2 cents and save two million lives they choose the two cents. their values are not those of their base unless they all want to kill their neighbors steal their votes and food stamps and healt care, wait weren't they cheering about that, my bad
