More casualties of the Obama EPA’s new mercury rules. Continue reading Sunbury to shut five coal-fired generators in Pennsylvania by 2015
Category: Chemicals
New Legislation Seeks To Eradicate PCBs In NY Schools
Much ado about nothing. Continue reading New Legislation Seeks To Eradicate PCBs In NY Schools
Kentucky utility: EPA mercury rules to cost it $100 million
What a deal: a minimum of $100 million in costs for just one utility in exchange for no benefits — even on a nationwide basis. Continue reading Kentucky utility: EPA mercury rules to cost it $100 million
Everything You Need to Know About PCBs (But Were Afraid to Ask)
A terrific summary and debunking of the PCB scare. Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About PCBs (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Debunkey Monkey Redux: Proposed dioxin limit draws farm concerns
“EPA rules would scare people from common foods” — like Ben & Jerry’s ice cream? Continue reading Debunkey Monkey Redux: Proposed dioxin limit draws farm concerns
EPA mercury rule in legal jeopardy?
As we’ve said, there are no benefits from reducing mercury emissions from power plants. Continue reading EPA mercury rule in legal jeopardy?
CFACT: EPA Mercury Rules For Electricity Generating Units Based On False Science And Economics
“It is a massive power grab that threatens to give EPA nearly unfettered power over the electrical power we need to support our livelihoods and living standards.” Continue reading CFACT: EPA Mercury Rules For Electricity Generating Units Based On False Science And Economics
Pueblo Chieftain: Obama’s ‘Power Grab’
“The economic harm here is devastating.” Continue reading Pueblo Chieftain: Obama’s ‘Power Grab’
New Enviro Target: Thermostats
As the EPA is working hard to kill off electricity generation, who will need a thermostat anyway? Continue reading New Enviro Target: Thermostats
IBD: Mercury Madness
The EPA thinks it’s worth spending billions of dollars each year to reduce already minuscule amounts of mercury in the outside air. So why is it trying to shove mercury-laced fluorescent bulbs into everyone’s homes? Continue reading IBD: Mercury Madness
WSJ: Lisa Jackson’s Power Play
“The rest of the purported benefits—to be precise, 99.99%—come by double-counting pollution reductions like soot that the EPA regulates through separate programs and therefore most will happen anyway. Using such “co-benefits” is an abuse of the cost-benefit process and shows that Cass Sunstein’s team at the White House regulatory office—many of whom opposed the rule—got steamrolled.” Continue reading WSJ: Lisa Jackson’s Power Play
EPA sets ‘poison standards’ for power plants?
The New York Times trashes 450 years of toxicology in a single headline. Continue reading EPA sets ‘poison standards’ for power plants?