The New York Times reports:
Under the president’s timetable, the first of those rules, covering new fossil fuel plants, is due Sept. 20. The agency must produce draft standards for existing plants, a vastly more complex and controversial undertaking, by next June.
“We worked with him on the schedule,” Ms. McCarthy said, referring to the president. “He impressed on us how important it was to get started now. He said to get it done, and get it done right.”
Those rules will require a shift in power generation from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas, or development of new cost-effective means of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions. The regulations, along with proposed new rules governing coal-mining waste and the disposal of coal ash from power plants, are what Mr. Manchin and others mean when they say the E.P.A. is waging a war on coal.
Ms. McCarthy rejected the charge.
“We don’t have a war on coal,” she said. “We’re doing our business, which is to reduce pollution. We’re following the law.”
She declined to take a position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, even though the E.P.A. has submitted two harsh critiques of the environmental impact statements produced by the State Department, which must rule on the pipeline project because it would span the border with Canada.
“That’s a matter for the Department of State, and I’m going to leave it there,” she said.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/236/4798/169.abstract
Report of a carbon dioxide “burp” from a volcanic source that did kill a large number of people. The disaster occurred in an area with little air movement or mixing, if I have understood correctly.
Howdy ralphcramdo
I dunno what kind of CO2 leak it would take to create a danger. CO – carbon monoxide — could be a danger. I’ve heard of massive CO leaks from natural sources that wiped out small communities. A CO2 capture system that leaked should have the CO2 dissipate pretty rapidly.
I guess a CO2 leak in a dip or valley with almost no air movement might reach a toxic level but it’s hard for me to believe it would happen.
CO2 capture is stupid unless it’s really a harvest — that there’s a market for the CO2.
The big problem will be when/if a CO2 capture leaks at or around a populated area.
Obama and the EPA would be following the law IF carbon dioxide was toxic at levels we’re likely to see, which it is not. The Clean Air Act was not written with “climate change” in mind and no legislation based on “climate change” has passed since the Clean Air Act was written. Heck, carbon dioxide isn’t even a haze element.
There is no such thing as cost-effective capture and storage unless there’s a place to sell the stored CO2, in which case it’s going back into the atmosphere anyway. It’s okay if it does.
And if you believe that I have a bridge I want to sell, only slightly damaged by Sandy.
I guess they forgot about this video on the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aLcbr63ME
As Obama Promised: Energy Prices to Soon Skyrocket
The EPA and Department of Energy drastically underestimated the effects of the new EPA rulings. Many more plants are closing than anticipated. This means electricity prices will sky rocket and the electric grid could become unstable New Regulations to Take 34 GW of Electricity Generation Offline and the Plant Closing Announcements Keep Coming… According to EPA, …. these regulations will only shutter 9.5 GW of electricity generation capacity. OOPS, I guess the government miscalculated.
So what about the “Green Energy companies funded with tax payer dollars that are supposed to replace these coal fired plants? They are going bankrupt at an alarming rate So far, [thats] 34 companies OOPS, I guess the government miscalculated.
As problems with an unstable grid due to Solar/wind becomes worst expect Smart Meters to become mandatory:
What the politicians neglect to say is their plan for making this work is to install Smart Meters, an attractive opportunity for Investors This theoretically allows residential electricity to be turned off so the system can be balanced as wind and solar power surges and declines. Of course with renewables bankrupting, smart meters not installed and coal plants closing at three time the rate expected, this put a real big kink in that plan. OOPS, I guess the government miscalculated AGAIN so we are looking at rolling blackouts. Heck they have already started.