New Coal Regulations Will Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills

[Trajan]

And you can bask in the glow of the Lightbringer's halo this winter.

Its Generalissimo Lightbringer.

..............biatch.

Cheif Obamalaca is amused......

 

[grunt11b]

Palin loves the smell of the emissions. I'm sure she'd like to abolish the EPA.

YouTube - ‪Palin loves smell of emissions‬‏

Who wouldn't like to abolish the EPA unless they are a devote communist? Name one thing the EPA does that states could not regulate themselves. It's just another fascist government entity to help bypass states rights and kill production.

 

[Stephanie]

I'm glad Obama is all for helping the middle class

Coal Regs Would Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills


Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent, according to a new study based on government data.

Overall, the rules aimed at making the air cleaner could cost the coal-fired power plant industry $180 billion, warns a trade group.

[Check out a roundup of political cartoons on energy policy.]

“Many of these severe impacts would hit families living in states already facing serious economic challenges,” said Steve Miller, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. “Because of these impacts, EPA should make major changes to the proposed regulations before they are finalized,” he said.

The EPA, however, tells Whispers that the hit the industry will suffer is worth the health benefits. “EPA has taken a number of sensible steps to protect public health, while also working with industry and other stakeholders to ensure that these important Clean Air Act standards—such as the first ever national Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants—are reasonable, common-sense, and achievable,” said spokesman Brendan Gilfillan. [Read Rep. Darrell Issa: Obama's Bad Policy, Harmful Regulations Add to Gas Prices.]

What’s more, officials said that just one of the rules to cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions will would yield up to $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits in 2014. They say that amounts to preventing up to 36,000 premature deaths, 26,000 hospital and emergency room visits, and 240,000 cases of aggravated asthma. “This far outweighs the estimated annual costs,” says an official on background


Coal Regs Would Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

I'll pay more upfront to alleviate the sufferings of thousands of Americans.

GOOD, then go to work everyday and send in ALL your paycheck to Federal Government, that would be the most charitable thing to do, don't ya think? For all them folks SUFFERING..

 

[thereisnospoon]

Every single regulation seems to kill jobs and drive cost up, according to conservatives..yet it's when deregulation is implemented that jobs are really lost and cost really goes up. Only with the latter, some very rich people wind up getting alot richer.

What you pay for gas is a result of Obama's policies. You bitch about that.
Now, your electricity will become much more costly because of Obama's policies. You will bitch about that.

 

[thereisnospoon]

For you I quess its easy to poisin children today to make a quick buck.

I guess for you distroying mountains and streams that belong to our children and their children too is easy for a quick buck.

Money isnt everything, sometimes people need clean air and water.

OUr grandchildren may have NO need of coal but you can bet your ass they will need healthy bodies clean streams and clean air.

You want to have them stand and look at the distroyed landscape and say " gee I quess grandpa couldnt do anything else for a living but cut down mountians and distroy the very land his grandfather left him".


Its not just YOUR mountains you greedy POS.

The availability of inexpensive electricity and efficient coal fired power plants is not mutually exclusive.
This is another scheme by the Obama admin to crush the private sector and create more dependency on government.
You bastards had just better keep your traps shut when you start seeing your power bills triple.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Shouldn't be to hard to discern he's talking about building new coal plants with old technology. And he is correct...that shouldn't be the direction we head in.

The "new technology" that Obama favors is not economically feasible. We'll all be shivering in the dark if Obama is allowed to proceed with his schemes to bring on the new Utopia.

It's been 90 degrees or over in NYC for a week now.

SO what...It won't get over 81 for the next 6 days.
KENNEDY AIRPORT, NY
FCST FCST FCST FCST FCST FCST FCST
SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
JUN 11 JUN 12 JUN 13 JUN 14 JUN 15 JUN 16 JUN 17



MOCLDY TSTRMS PTCLDY SUNNY SUNNY PTCLDY PTCLDY
66/72 65/81 61/76 60/77 62/78 63/77 64/79
30/40 60/60 30/20 20/20 20/10 20/30 30/20

Next case.....Dummy.

 

[Dot Com]

The health dangers from coal burning power plants is well documented. We know what carcinogens and toxins are being spread and ingested by citizens. It is polluting the air we breath, the water we drink and the fish we can no longer safely eat because they are loaded with heavy metals like mercury. What is going on here is socialism and welfare... corporate socialism and corporate welfare. It is the dismantling of the free market and externalizing the polluters costs on to all of us.

They raise standards of living for themselves by lowering the quality of life for everybody else, and they do that by evading the discipline of the free market. You show me a polluter; I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and to force the public to pay his production costs. That's what all pollution is. It's always a subsidy. It's always a guy trying to cheat the free market.

Corporations are externalizing machines. They're constantly figuring out ways to get somebody else to pay their costs of production. That's their nature. One of the best ways to do that, and the most common way for a polluter, is through pollution.

Read this if you want to find out what the so called liberal media doesn't tell you.

 

[Ava]

"New Coal Regulations Will Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills"

C`mon, isn't that the goal of this administration??

 

[Rozman]

The EPA, however, tells Whispers that the hit the industry will suffer is worth the health benefits. “EPA has taken a number of sensible steps to protect public health, while also working with industry and other stakeholders to ensure that these important Clean Air Act standards—such as the first ever national Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants—are reasonable, common-sense, and achievable,” said spokesman Brendan Gilfillan. [Read Rep. Darrell Issa: Obama's Bad Policy, Harmful Regulations Add to Gas Prices.]

What’s more, officials said that just one of the rules to cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions will would yield up to $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits in 2014. They say that amounts to preventing up to 36,000 premature deaths, 26,000 hospital and emergency room visits, and 240,000 cases of aggravated asthma. “This far outweighs the estimated annual costs,” says an official on background. [Check out political cartoons on the economy.]

What’s more, officials said that just one of the rules to cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions will would yield up to $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits in 2014. They say that amounts to preventing up to 36,000 premature deaths, 26,000 hospital and emergency room visits, and 240,000 cases of aggravated asthma. “This far outweighs the estimated annual costs,” says an official on background. [Check out political cartoons on the economy.]

I just love how these guys throw these numbers around....up to $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits in 2014.

How bout this I say it will cost us all a gazillion dollars in higher energy costs by December 1 2013......

You go Obama kill more jobs why don't ya....

 

[Jroc]

I'd bet that neither Marty or Bripat even read or more so, went to see what articles were posted and by whom. So they resorted to the ever popular far right technique, demonize the messenger.
Hell, I could copy & paste thousands of articles for them to ponder and demonize (because they are experts, you know).
Bottom-line, per the Chinese authoritarian government, China is converting to clean coal technology, now why would they do that?

you've got to love the way these stupid idiots have so much faith in China you want to see China you idiot?

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush

 

[Jroc]

You've got to love the way these libs put so much faith in the government, it's like a religion with them. This will kill jobs, raise everybody’s energy bills, shut down more manufacturing in this country, then when the libs can't pay their bills they'll want some more government programs to subsidize their high energy cost, all the while our country goes bankrupt.... the liberal utopia.

 

[Bfgrn]

Coal's Assault on Human Health

Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. This report looks at the cumulative harm inflicted by those pollutants on three major body organ systems: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system. The report also considers coal’s contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming.

Download the report:
Executive Summary (pdf)
Full report (pdf)

Download by chapter:
Front Matter (pdf)
Chapter 1 Introduction (pdf)
Chapter 2 Life Cycle of Coal (pdf)
Chapter 3 Respiratory Effects (pdf)
Chapter 4 Cardiovascular Effects (pdf)
Chapter 5 Neurological Effects (pdf)
Chapter 6 Global Warming (pdf)
Chapter 7 Policy Recommendations (pdf)

Executive Summary

Coal pollutants affect all major body organ systems and contribute to four of the five leading causes of mortality in the U.S.: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. This conclusion emerges from our reassessment of the widely recognized health threats from coal. Each step of the coal lifecycle—mining, transportation, washing, combustion, and disposing of postcombustion wastes—impacts human health. Coal combustion in particular contributes to diseases affecting large portions of the U.S. population, including asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, compounding the major public health challenges of our time. It interferes with lung development, increases the risk of heart attacks, and compromises intellectual capacity. Oxidative stress and inflammation are indicated as possible mechanisms in the exacerbation and development of many of the diseases under review.

 

[daveman]

"New Coal Regulations Will Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills"

C`mon, isn't that the goal of this administration??

They've made no secret about it.

 

[daveman]

You've got to love the way these libs put so much faith in the government, it's like a religion with them.

The Government's Prayer

Our Government in D.C.,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy nanny state come.
Thy mandate be done
on flyover country as it is in the coasts.
Give us this month our monthly check,
and audit us our trespasses,
as we file suit against those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into liberty,
but deliver us from ourselves.
For thine is the oligarchy,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

 

[WillowTree]

"New Coal Regulations Will Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills"

C`mon, isn't that the goal of this administration??

Yes, it is.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Coal's Assault on Human Health

Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. This report looks at the cumulative harm inflicted by those pollutants on three major body organ systems: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system. The report also considers coal’s contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming.

Download the report:
Executive Summary (pdf)
Full report (pdf)

Download by chapter:
Front Matter (pdf)
Chapter 1 Introduction (pdf)
Chapter 2 Life Cycle of Coal (pdf)
Chapter 3 Respiratory Effects (pdf)
Chapter 4 Cardiovascular Effects (pdf)
Chapter 5 Neurological Effects (pdf)
Chapter 6 Global Warming (pdf)
Chapter 7 Policy Recommendations (pdf)

Executive Summary

Coal pollutants affect all major body organ systems and contribute to four of the five leading causes of mortality in the U.S.: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. This conclusion emerges from our reassessment of the widely recognized health threats from coal. Each step of the coal lifecycle—mining, transportation, washing, combustion, and disposing of postcombustion wastes—impacts human health. Coal combustion in particular contributes to diseases affecting large portions of the U.S. population, including asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, compounding the major public health challenges of our time. It interferes with lung development, increases the risk of heart attacks, and compromises intellectual capacity. Oxidative stress and inflammation are indicated as possible mechanisms in the exacerbation and development of many of the diseases under review.

"Physicians for Social Responsibility"...Are you fucking kidding. Get that liberal clap trap the fuck out of here.
You stupid liberals really do think you can exist is a federally mandated plastic bubble free of all risk.
One major volcanic eruption can emit more pollution than 10,000 coal fired plants. For Christ's sake..A volcanic eruption in Iceland last year shut down air travel to and above Europe for three weeks. What the fuck is wrong with you people.
Are you that eager to have government take over your very being?

 

[thereisnospoon]

I'd bet that neither Marty or Bripat even read or more so, went to see what articles were posted and by whom. So they resorted to the ever popular far right technique, demonize the messenger.
Hell, I could copy & paste thousands of articles for them to ponder and demonize (because they are experts, you know).
Bottom-line, per the Chinese authoritarian government, China is converting to clean coal technology, now why would they do that?

you've got to love the way these stupid idiots have so much faith in China you want to see China you idiot?

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush

fucking unbelievable...And Obama was singing praises about how great China is

 

[Sallow]

I'd bet that neither Marty or Bripat even read or more so, went to see what articles were posted and by whom. So they resorted to the ever popular far right technique, demonize the messenger.
Hell, I could copy & paste thousands of articles for them to ponder and demonize (because they are experts, you know).
Bottom-line, per the Chinese authoritarian government, China is converting to clean coal technology, now why would they do that?

you've got to love the way these stupid idiots have so much faith in China you want to see China you idiot?

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush

fucking unbelievable...And Obama was singing praises about how great China is

Link?

 

[Sallow]

Coal's Assault on Human Health

Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. This report looks at the cumulative harm inflicted by those pollutants on three major body organ systems: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system. The report also considers coal’s contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming.

Download the report:
Executive Summary (pdf)
Full report (pdf)

Download by chapter:
Front Matter (pdf)
Chapter 1 Introduction (pdf)
Chapter 2 Life Cycle of Coal (pdf)
Chapter 3 Respiratory Effects (pdf)
Chapter 4 Cardiovascular Effects (pdf)
Chapter 5 Neurological Effects (pdf)
Chapter 6 Global Warming (pdf)
Chapter 7 Policy Recommendations (pdf)

Executive Summary

Coal pollutants affect all major body organ systems and contribute to four of the five leading causes of mortality in the U.S.: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. This conclusion emerges from our reassessment of the widely recognized health threats from coal. Each step of the coal lifecycle—mining, transportation, washing, combustion, and disposing of postcombustion wastes—impacts human health. Coal combustion in particular contributes to diseases affecting large portions of the U.S. population, including asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, compounding the major public health challenges of our time. It interferes with lung development, increases the risk of heart attacks, and compromises intellectual capacity. Oxidative stress and inflammation are indicated as possible mechanisms in the exacerbation and development of many of the diseases under review.

"Physicians for Social Responsibility"...Are you fucking kidding. Get that liberal clap trap the fuck out of here.
You stupid liberals really do think you can exist is a federally mandated plastic bubble free of all risk.
One major volcanic eruption can emit more pollution than 10,000 coal fired plants. For Christ's sake..A volcanic eruption in Iceland last year shut down air travel to and above Europe for three weeks. What the fuck is wrong with you people.
Are you that eager to have government take over your very being?

How does one regulate volcanoes?

 

[Bfgrn]

Coal's Assault on Human Health

Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a groundbreaking medical report, “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” which takes a new look at the devastating impacts of coal on the human body. Coal combustion releases mercury, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and dozens of other substances known to be hazardous to human health. This report looks at the cumulative harm inflicted by those pollutants on three major body organ systems: the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system. The report also considers coal’s contribution to global warming, and the health implications of global warming.

Download the report:
Executive Summary (pdf)
Full report (pdf)

Download by chapter:
Front Matter (pdf)
Chapter 1 Introduction (pdf)
Chapter 2 Life Cycle of Coal (pdf)
Chapter 3 Respiratory Effects (pdf)
Chapter 4 Cardiovascular Effects (pdf)
Chapter 5 Neurological Effects (pdf)
Chapter 6 Global Warming (pdf)
Chapter 7 Policy Recommendations (pdf)

Executive Summary

Coal pollutants affect all major body organ systems and contribute to four of the five leading causes of mortality in the U.S.: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. This conclusion emerges from our reassessment of the widely recognized health threats from coal. Each step of the coal lifecycle—mining, transportation, washing, combustion, and disposing of postcombustion wastes—impacts human health. Coal combustion in particular contributes to diseases affecting large portions of the U.S. population, including asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, compounding the major public health challenges of our time. It interferes with lung development, increases the risk of heart attacks, and compromises intellectual capacity. Oxidative stress and inflammation are indicated as possible mechanisms in the exacerbation and development of many of the diseases under review.

"Physicians for Social Responsibility"...Are you fucking kidding. Get that liberal clap trap the fuck out of here.
You stupid liberals really do think you can exist is a federally mandated plastic bubble free of all risk.
One major volcanic eruption can emit more pollution than 10,000 coal fired plants. For Christ's sake..A volcanic eruption in Iceland last year shut down air travel to and above Europe for three weeks. What the fuck is wrong with you people.
Are you that eager to have government take over your very being?

What is the government's responsibility? To protect the citizens from all threats foreign or domestic. Coal emissions is a threat to human life and health. This not theory, it is reality.

Why are you folks on the right in TOTAL denial?

Have you ever heard of the law of the commons? It goes back to the Magna Carta before there was an EPA. BTW, the EPA was started by a Republican...Richard Nixon.

Is the American Lung Association also a 'liberal clap trap, or is it just any organization that doesn't support your ignorance and far right wing ideology?

Toxic Air: Time to Clean Up Coal-fired Power Plants _______________________________________________
Did you know that the coal-fired power plants, found across the country, emit health-threatening toxins into our air every day? Toxins like arsenic, mercury, acid gases and lead. The American Lung Association’s new report Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants, reveals the hazardous air pollution emitted from power plants and why now is the time to clean them up and protect ou health.

The report highlights the long list of uncontrolled pollutants from these plants including dangerous pollutants such as arsenic, mercury, dioxins, formaldehyde, acid gases and PAHs, just to name a few. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required on March 16 to issue a proposal to finally clean up these hazardous air pollutants. This comes more than twenty years after Congress added requirements to the Clean Air Act—with strong bipartisan support—that these toxic emissions must be stopped.

Hazards revealed

The Lung Association’s report reveals the real public health threat from coal-fired power plants.

>> Coal-fired power plants that sell electricity to the grid produce more hazardous air pollution in the U.S. than any other industrial pollution sources.

>> More than 400 coal-fired power plants located in 46 states across the country release more that 386,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants into the atmosphere each year.

>> Particle pollution from power plants is estimated to kill approximately 13,000 people a year.

“Power plant pollution kills people,” said Charles D. Connor, President and CEO of the American Lung Association. “It threatens the brains and nervous system of children. It can cause cancer, heart attacks and strokes.

“It’s time that we end the ‘toxic loophole’ that has allowed coal-burning power plants to operate without any federal limits on emissions of mercury, arsenic, dioxin, acid gases such as hydrogen chloride and other dangerous pollutants,” said Charles D. Connor, president and CEO of the American Lung Association.

“People living closest to these plants, especially children, seniors, pregnant women and those with chronic disease face the greatest risk, but it doesn’t stop there. Pollution from coal-fired power plants takes flight and travels far into other states—threatening public health.”

Time for EPA to act

The Clean Air Act requires that hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants be controlled. Because EPA is overdue in delivering its proposal for cleaning up these plants, the agency is under a court order to propose these regulations by March 16. Without the new rules, no national standards exist to limit these pollutants from these plants.

The Lung Association report identifies modern pollution control technologies that that are currently in use in some plants, which are readily available for installation at other plants. The law sets the cleanup requirements based on actual performance facilities, but each power plant will select the specific pollution control strategies to reduce their emissions.

“The American public has waited long enough—more than two decades. We are counting on EPA to protect all Americans from the health risks imposed by these dangerous pollutants once and for all.”

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