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Related: About this forumWest Virginia Democrat Unveils Bill To Let Coal Plants Emit Unlimited Carbon Pollution
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/11/3447862/rahall-coal-carbon-rule/In this Thursday, April 8, 2010, file photo, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., listens during a news conference at Marsh Fork Elementary in Montcoal, W.Va.
Coal plants would be able to spew unlimited amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere if legislation introduced by a notoriously pro-coal Democrat were signed into law, and the Environmental Protection Agency would not be able to do anything to stop it.
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) on Tuesday introduced the Protection and Accountability Regulatory Act of 2014, which would nullify proposed rules recently announced by the EPA limiting carbon pollution from existing coal plants. Rahalls bill would also nullify other proposed EPA regulations limiting carbon pollution from new coal plants, modified coal plants, and reconstructed coal plants unless Congress specifically acts to allow them.
The EPA needs to get their head out of the clouds and come back down to Earth where the rest of us must live and work, Rahall said in a statement. We dont need more regulation to solve our energy challengeswe need more innovation.
The legislation comes a little more than a week after President Obama and the EPA unveiled their rule to set caps on carbon emissions from existing power plants, a move widely seen as the most significant thing the U.S. has ever done to fight the direct cause of climate change. Though the rule sets a national goal of a 30 percent emissions reduction from 2005 levels by 2030, it only requires West Virginia to make a 20 percent reduction in that time. West Virginia is allowed to make its own plan to meet that goal, whether it be by investing in cleaner technology like solar and wind, or lowering electricity demand through efficiency projects.
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West Virginia Democrat Unveils Bill To Let Coal Plants Emit Unlimited Carbon Pollution (Original Post)
xchrom
Jun 2014
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. It will go nowhere in the Senate until 2016.
And by pushing it through the House, where it will undoubtedly be passed mainly by Republicans, he hands more ammo to Republicans to use to try to take over the Senate.
Nothing like putting your own corporate owners ahead of the survival of the entire human race there, buddy.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)2. Amen....
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Think Progress forgot to put "Democrat" in quotes.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)4. Hmmm what could go wrong with unlimited campaign contributions?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. " The cheque is in the mail, sir."
From your friends at Big Coal.
Official bribery, that is the way America runs.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)6. "President Paul thanks the Thinkbaggers for making the Great Blue Hope look bad with his own words"
YES IT'S NEEDED
NickB79
(19,114 posts)7. Burn, baby, burn!
Nihil
(13,508 posts)8. "The best democracy that money can buy."
Nice to see that it's all bi-partisan and "across the aisle" too ...