KINDLY NOTE 'THE EFFECTIVE DATE' - February 6, 2007. Coal Fired Plants? Huh?
These people are the saddest mess I have ever witnessed.
Why am I getting the feeling the 'desperate' are running for the highest office in the land rather than 'the best' leadership that can be found in the country. Desperation has nearly caused a Constitutional Crisis. Habeous Corpus is already on the chopping block and why? Because it is necessary for reasons of National Security? No. Because it is an agenda for the political fodder of the Republican Party.
We are in danger of losing the benevolent nature of Earth. I guess if I had a whole lot of coal mines that no longer produced coal I would come up with a 'scare' tactic that would bring 'the wealthy genteel' to the forefront of reason.
But, to believe that alone only postpones the inevitable. The USA needs to radify Kyoto Protocol and set very tough carbon dioxide emission standards for the entire country. It is literally upto the USA to stop and reverse Human Induced Global Warming. We need to set those standards SPECIFICALLY for the continental USA as well as Alaska and Hawaii.
Preventing higher levels of carbon dioxide in other burgeoning economies is also the right thing to do, but, not exclusively the way to define the reduction in these emissions by the USA.
Absolutely not.
By providing advanced technology and alternative energies to other countries it only inappropriately displaces the contribution of the USA. Some of these countries don't have carbon dioxide emissions to control, yet. The exception is China, but, the population alone and it's new consumerism makes any effort blunted. By building these facilities the USA can displace it's own responsibilty for it's ESCALATING emissions. The USA has to bring it's OWN emissions to 1990 levels or less. We need to do this now.
Legislation to control this type of environmental abuse has to take place at the federal level and soon. To allow it to be defined as an 'election issue' is to postpone it's resolve forever. Time is of the essence and the USA is grossly negligent in it's responsibilty to Earth and our own well being.
Texas Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Plan (Click on title of entry for link. Thank you.)
AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Final rule; approval of amendment.
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SUMMARY: We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
(OSM), are approving an amendment to the Texas abandoned mine land
reclamation plan (Texas plan) under the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The Railroad Commission of
Texas (RCT or Commission) proposed to assume responsibility of the
abandoned mine land reclamation (AML) emergency program in Texas. The
Commission also proposed to revise the Texas plan by updating portions
to reflect its current practices and by removing references to its old
regulations (Texas Coal Mining Regulations (TCMR)) and replacing them
with references to its recodified regulations (16 Texas Administrative
Code (TAC)).
DATES: Effective Date: February 6, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael C. Wolfrom, Director, Tulsa
Field Office. Telephone: (918) 581-6430. E-mail address:
mwolfrom@osmre.gov.
