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Coal-fired Congress Blocks Path to Clean Energy
OPS_admin | Dec 17, 2009 | Comments 0
U.S. leadership on global warming threatened by compromise in Congress
Becoming a grandfather is cause for celebration, unless you’re a coal-fired power plant.
Coal plants that predate the Clean Air Act have become the mules of air pollution—set in their ways and not liable to change. Exploiting their “grandfathered” status, these coal plants have refused to implement technologies that are currently available to reduce pollution.
Now, Congress seems determined to let these dinosaurs off the hook all over again.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent Clean Air Act endangerment finding prescribes a strong antidote to global warming pollution—a fact President Obama will surely highlight tomorrow on the final day of climate negotiations in Copenhagen—a political compromise over coal plants threatens to bind EPA’s hands just as it begins to act.
Full Story Coal-fired Congress Blocks Path to Clean Energy | unEARTHED, the Earthjustice blog.
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