It is too late for transitions fuels. I just is. Scientists have discovered a way to roll back time. Building more natural gas power plants are a mistake. The industry will fight any and all regulations from now to the end of time. The petroleum industry does not care about human life. I doubt they care about any form of life at all
There is new soldier in the fight. She is Erin Brockovich and her fight against industry pollution of water. Shehas a map of the severe damage conducted by the petroleum industry by fracking across this country. She was on Bill Maher. She is very serious and a good friend to the American people.
Let's face it the laws passed by Cheney during the Bush decade are egregious and do not take into account any current science. The laws are extremely corrupt.
By Joanna M. Foster
January 9, 2014 at 12:48 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, (click here) at long last, published its rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants. The proposed rule appeared Wednesday in the Federal Register, four months after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced it back in September.
The regulation mandates that all future coal plants can emit just 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour. An average U.S. coal plant currently dumps over 1,700 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for every megawatt-hour of energy it produces. The rule also covers new natural-gas fired plants. Natural gas plants, 100 megawatts or larger, will be limited to 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, while smaller plants could emit no more than 1,100 pounds.
Modern combined-cycle natural gas plants are essentially already able to meet this standard. The rule, will however, make it very difficult for new coal-fired power plants to be built in the United States. Utilities will only be able to build new coal plants if they are able to capture 20 to 40 percent of the carbon they emit and store it underground. This technology is known as carbon capture and storage (CCS). Many coal advocates in Congress and fossil-fuel industry leaders have argued that the standard is designed to nix new coal plant construction, claiming that the CCS technology needed to meet the standard simply isn’t ready for commercial deployment...
There is new soldier in the fight. She is Erin Brockovich and her fight against industry pollution of water. Shehas a map of the severe damage conducted by the petroleum industry by fracking across this country. She was on Bill Maher. She is very serious and a good friend to the American people.
Let's face it the laws passed by Cheney during the Bush decade are egregious and do not take into account any current science. The laws are extremely corrupt.
By Joanna M. Foster
January 9, 2014 at 12:48 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, (click here) at long last, published its rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants. The proposed rule appeared Wednesday in the Federal Register, four months after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced it back in September.
The regulation mandates that all future coal plants can emit just 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour. An average U.S. coal plant currently dumps over 1,700 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for every megawatt-hour of energy it produces. The rule also covers new natural-gas fired plants. Natural gas plants, 100 megawatts or larger, will be limited to 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, while smaller plants could emit no more than 1,100 pounds.
Modern combined-cycle natural gas plants are essentially already able to meet this standard. The rule, will however, make it very difficult for new coal-fired power plants to be built in the United States. Utilities will only be able to build new coal plants if they are able to capture 20 to 40 percent of the carbon they emit and store it underground. This technology is known as carbon capture and storage (CCS). Many coal advocates in Congress and fossil-fuel industry leaders have argued that the standard is designed to nix new coal plant construction, claiming that the CCS technology needed to meet the standard simply isn’t ready for commercial deployment...
