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The Obama Administration Outlaws New Coal-Fired Powerplants

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

By: streiff (Diary)  |  March 27th, 2012 at 12:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Yesterday the Obama Administration effectively outlawed coal as a fuel source and it underscores the importance of Congress severely circumscribing the authority of regulatory agencies.

The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.

The proposed rule — years in the making and approved by the White House after months of review — will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.

By outlawing new coal-fired electric generation plants and ignoring nuclear power, the Administration has set in motion a plan to make the nation dependent upon natural gas and a mishmash of politically correct but non-viable sources such as solar and wind as older plants are decommissioned. Essentially, Obama has done via regulatory means what it could not accomplish in Congress: to set the trajectory for exorbitant electricity prices in the service of reducing “greenhouse gasses.”

This is not a new problem. Indeed, last year Speaker Boehner wrote to Obama to complain that the Administration was not being forthcoming in disclosing its regulatory agenda and, as far as I can discern, was roundly ignored.

Whether it be in the form of directing you to purchase a product you don’t wish to buy, telling religious organizations what they have to allow, or making electricity unaffordable, the cancerous growth of regulations presents the greatest danger to our liberty. Until the Congress decides to man up and take back the power that it has relinquished we are in a death spiral as a free people.

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  • Ann_W

    He’s willing to do this because the costs won’t kick in ’til later.

  • http://www.marklaiminger.org Lammo

    their precious Volts and Leafs (should that be Leaves?) is going to come from where? May buying my daughters those horses wasn’t such a bad idea. If these people keep running the asylum, horseback will be the only thing left.

    • gekster

      will they start complainning about the methane that horses give off that they attribute to GW, opps, Man Made Climate Change,
      and then start saying that you are limited to only one horse, and that it be a Shetland Pony? (equivelant to a Chevy Volt)

      • http://www.marklaiminger.org Lammo

        or, in this case, the devil is in the White House.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    you could have entitled this post “Deus Low Volt!”

    • proudgop

      Will the people of W Virginia re-elect people like Manchin and Rahall who vote to keep Dems in power?

      • Repair_Man_Jack

        -nt

  • norris

    It is not only jobs lost in power plants. The railroads are dependent on the coal industry for much of revenue. Barges, construction equipment,heat and power for factory and large buildings. America must not lose all of these jobs for a perceived global warming problem.

    • davesinsanantonio

      They know that global warming is a fake. What they have is a perceived lack of government power problem, and a perceived lack of leftist power problem. It is all about control of others that drives them, Obummer and Mrs. Obummer most of all. They dream of the day when they will be crowned emperor and empress of the world, and their sycophantic lapdogs in all branches of academia and the media pray for that day as well. The leftists long to worship some man-made power so they don’t have to kneel to a higher one.

      • ariyosef

        Israel of Old (in David’s youth) was warned by YahWeh through the Prophet Samuel, that desiring Kings would result in aweful consequences.

        STILL TRUE TODAY.

        We choose, HE (the MOST HIGH GOD), not Obummer rules. All will soon KNOW the true Almighty Power who made the universe.

      • justperhaps45

        It may well be that poverty is a greater pollutant than CO2 (vist a 3rd world country to see). Poverty increases the power of the haves over the have-nots. Which may be why our betters are for it? Is not the false pollution argument actually a ploy to increase poverty by making energy less affordable?

        Elevated CO2 levels actually enhance plant growth. A growing plant is actually fixing carbon in it’s trunk, stems and leaves where it can be quite useful. As long as the sulphur component can be managed burning coal works fine.

  • drfredc

    Seems what the Obamacrats are saying outlawing Coal power plants is just saying they need to move to the other side of the border of Mexico, or India, or China. Then redirect the parade of coal trains towards that location.

    It’s another negative US jobs regulation intended to make the Greens fell good about CO2 produced in the US, but it’s OK if produced elsewhere. Furthermore, it’s OK if that cheap coal energy is used to produce less expensive goods for resell in the US — killing more US jobs.

    Obama, the nation’s first Blue Green president — all about (public) unions and Greens… Everyone else, not so much… What we need is a Red White and Blue president who is fair to the private (Red Sector), the White (retired sector) and Blue (union jobs, both public and private on reasonably equal footing with non-union jobs).

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    • Joshua Persons

      nt

    • ag8tor

      who do you think is going to do anything about it? The House? Certainly not the Senate! Forget the courts! The press surely is not going to report your findings. Wake up people, we are on our own. Nobody in DC gives a rat’s a** about you or me. If we do not come together in November, America as we know it is finished. Four more years of this and we are essentially Greece. Obama will be George Soros’ puppet dictator and will be making executive decisions without any involvlement of Congress. We will basically be a very large 3rd world nation. Martial law and brownshirts will be the order of the day. Better stock up on your ammo so you can hold out against the gestapo. I know it’s been said time and again but still people support this Marxist/Communist! It is up to us to stop him. Use your one weapon, your vote!

      • funwithknives

        days when some here used to correct me for my “Stylings and Prose”. {I’m Much Better Now…..}

        I bow to your ‘creativity’, but give you no points for readibility.
        When eyeball recovery is needed, it’s time for a change.

  • acat

    This is, unfortunately, nothing new. Coal, especially southern Illinois “high sulfur” coal has been under attack since the 1960s.

    Towns like Carbondale, Coal City, and Glen Carbon give an idea of the history; the prominent placement of coal-fired power plants in the State capitol (Springfield, IL – clearly visible from I-55/I-72) give an idea of how devastating ending coal power would be to what is, ironically, Obama’s home state.

    CommEd, the Chicago electric utility, has much more to lose – without coal power, and an aging (read: bloody expensive) fleet of nuclear water boilers, they’re going to be relying more and more on natural gas “peaker” plants to take up the load during hot summers and cold winters.

    Further, several older Chicago-area coal-fired power plants are being shut down – including the Stateline plant and two others… all in areas noted for a lack of good jobs.

    There is some new hope for the U.S. coal industry – well, technically it’s a rather old hope… converting coal into synthetic natural gas. On the upside, this is much cleaner – in terms of carbon, not just carbon dioxide – so air quality goes up … but on the downside, it’s nowhere near as efficient as “grind coal, shovel under boiler”.

    Poking around the link above should lead to the amount of Fed and State money being shoveled at the Taylorville, IL pilot plant.

    I’ll also note that CommEd have been talking – although I haven’t seen chatter recently – about building “several new coal-fired plants” south of I-74, and using high tension lines to bring the electricity to the Chicago market. Could be that the Taylorville, IL plant is the first step on this plan…

    I hope it works out better than CommEd’s last big idea – build a lot of nuclear power plants, just in time for the greenies to protest the technology, ensuring Chicago has the highest electrical rates in the country. (including Hawaii!)

    Mew

    • papabear

      Waste energy to create syngas. Waste more energy to clean the syngas up and turn it into SNG (Substitute Natural Gas). Waste an enormous amount of energy by compressing and injecting the CO2 into deep underground salt formations (AKA CO2 sequestration).

      Oh, I forgot something

      Pray that CO2 does not escape underground formation and kill all living beings at the point where it exits the ground and enters the earth’s atmosphere.

    • bobguzzardi

      thanks Pennsylvania is a coal state but natural gas is transforming the economy. Naturally, the Democrats want to tax it.

  • funwithknives

    Blue States?
    Oh I forgot,… the rule was just instated.
    Give it a few months and some “outraged” Union Leaders and Locals , it will be a whole new ball game.

  • johnt

    I do get the uncomfortable feeling that O & the left in general, are trying to shut the nation down, except of course for themselves. Then O will spend even more time at Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii with his ungainly wife, except of course when the thing goes by herself.

    • davesinsanantonio

      you are way behind the times. He told us in ’08 that he was going to “fundamentally change America”. And, the idiots who voted for him thought he meant a more transparent, post-racial, bi-partisan society that was fair for all
      .
      Ha!

      When a leftist says he wants change, what he, or she, is really saying is that they want more power to push others around, and to hell with the consequences, and to hell with the rights and legitimate concerns of those others.

      • justperhaps45

        Hush Dave.

        Your betters know better. We know you don’t understand, but that’s okay, it’ll be fine.

  • Scope

    or we would have watched him sitting fireside, with a sweater on, and telling people to turn down their thermostats.

  • citizenkh

    Combined cycle natural gas fired power plants produce approx 350 pounds per MW. Coal exhaust can be scrubbed with an amine solution to remove a good bit of CO2,

    However, scrubbing coal boiler exhaust emission with algae seems to be what the EPA wants to put into effect. That gets emissions under the 1000 mark and is a regulatory mandate for making fuel out of algae.

    • davesinsanantonio

      with pond scum.

      • funwithknives

        all the Progressives in there? A plumbers helper?

        If it’ll help, let’s grind’em up first and see if it works.

      • snowshooze

        nt

  • hwgood

    …are not available to plug into today. That’s a “secret” that’s dirtier than the emissions of any power plant, and something Bam-Bam is desperate to have the Left Stream Media keep hiding.

  • cavvet

    that keeps his word. In 2008 Obama said he would run coal out of business. [\sarcasim]

    • jlsankot

      And the majority couldn’t understand anything but the color of his skin.

      But sometimes I wonder if the majority actually DID understand what he was saying and he won because of voter fraud. I just have a hard time believing that people would willingly vote for an America-hater. Well, I have to take some of that back as I know of a very smart man who changed his mind in the last election and voted for 0 because his college-aged son convinced him to do so. And surprise of all surprises, he won’t admit he made a mistake. Did I say smart? Well, he’s a lawyer, and I’ll let you be the judge.

      Voter fraud will be present and healthy this Nov.

      • ag8tor

        wait till November. This is why I think that no matter how many votes he gets, he’ll end up winning. If not the popular vote, the electoral vote will be in his favor. Is there any reason to think that this bunch of socialists wouldn’t rig the election? Remember that he’s Soro’s puppet and that makes a big difference. Soros will stop at nothing to bring the USA down including taking over an election. Plus the fact that this weak-assed Congress will not even make an effort to stop him. How’s that “Fundemental Change” working for you?

      • funwithknives

        *PASS* by the SCUM and that was only the beginning. McCain did virtually nothing to counter his narrative and the lack of info about him.

        In terms of who is ‘very smart’, please cogitate: After all the lies, broken promises, and shattered aspirations Barry has overseen [most by his proclimations} how in Creation could anyone of real objective intelligence, entertain the very thought of voting for Him, after what they have seen for 3.5 years?
        Possible answer? :They were never really very bright to begin with, [Fooled ‘Ya!} yet as they are more like him than even they could believe.They voted for someone Just Like Them.

  • gaudium

    Electric power and heating. 55% comes from coal, 20% from nuclear, nearly 17% from NG and everything else makes up the rest. “According to the Institute for Energy Research, there is enough natural gas in the U.S. to meet electricity demand for 575 years at current fuel demand and more gas in the U.S. than there is in Russia, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some place called Turkmenistan combined. Oil? The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s top oil producer. … Yet in the end, high gas prices are part of the plan. This is what the administration wants gas prices as high or higher than they are in Europe.” And we haven?t built a nuclear power plant in 35 years.

    Mr. Obama’s gas-price predicament if it weren’t a case of rough justice. The President has deliberately sought to raise the price of energy throughout the economy via his cap-and-trade agenda. He is now getting his wish, albeit a little too overtly for political comfort. Mr. Obama has also spent three years blaming George W. Bush for every economic ill. If Mr. Obama now feels frustrated by economic events beyond his control, perhaps he should call Mr. Bush for consolation.”

    Nuclear pays off with about 3 cents per kwh, as opposed to solar shingles and windmills which are at 23 cents per kwh. The windmills are like the Chevy volt. Only the rich tree huggers can afford them. Power from windmills and shingles will bankrupt the poor and middle class and won?t move a single car or truck.

    Private industry is standing in line to finance nuclear power plants and more NG production which can also be used to fuel cars and trucks, at less than 50% of CO2 emissions. Nuclear is zero CO2. All of this energy production can be done with American investment with American labor with American products and without taxpayer money. Guess who is standing in the way?

  • socabill

    The White House. Now, really, how difficult could it be to reverse much (if not all) of this madness?

    That is, if Romney doesn’t blow it, which is a distinct possibility…

    • tnguy

      He believes in it. He will seek to slightly modify aspects of it. It’s what he does. It’s what Boehner and McConnell do. If we don’t have dramatic changes in leadership, we aren’t going to see any shift away from this or any other big government policy.

      What was it EE posted a week ago? We’re witnessing the unwinding of the conservative movement from the (R) party, for better or worse.

      • funwithknives

        Say,…. if 20 or 30 million voters Crash all his servers. Likewise,House and Senate majority leaders.

        Mitt has changed his mind before, and can and will do it again. It’s who he is. If he truly is “Our Guy”,and we know his moves beforehand, then massive input is required.
        No ifs ands or buts.This is the choice we have and is the price we pay for what has been allowed to occur.
        Yes, It Has Come to This…

  • mcgee

    How about this. The coal companies one and all do their best to bring down CO2 emissions and then say the government screw you. What are they going to do, bring police action. Not if the people have anything to say about it. I am so tired of cowering to the government and its phony EPA. Enough is enough. Over reaching gov. go to hell.

  • spolson

    Without coal fired electric generating plants the hopes of electric cars is doomed. But then Liberals can’t think a thing thru anyway. They have been predicting and computer modeling Manhattan underwater for 50 years and the deadline comes and goes. Your globally warmed earth is no hotter than when you predicted before but you persist. Newspapers didn’t decompose in the landfills. Al Gore is a billionaire with energy glowing from his house. Why is it that you can’t learn. What exactly is it we are supposed to to to dispose of the toxic florescent bulbs you say will save the planet.

  • mogul264

    Way to go, all you Sherlocks! First, you force the auto manufacturers to build all-electric powered cars. Of course, these electrics must eventually be recharged with electricity from the grids. And, next, we’re shutting down: the nuclear ones, there’s nowhere to build any more hydraulic (water-power) ones, shut down the old coal-fired ones for pollution problems, and NOW ( ! ! ) we can’t build any new ones to take advantage of our cheapest and greatest natural resource…..coal! Really? How utterly asinine can you get? (Asinine means ‘goofy’ for all you unwashed and uneducated Occupy-Wall-Streeters)

    Maybe we need to get back to nature, you say? Maybe kerosene lamps, hand-sewn, hand-washed clothing, horses and buggies? Sure would make people move out of the big cities, as the smell becomes horrendous from all the horse poop……..and the flies!!!!! Apparently, no one has read the history books of all the problems cities had just prior to refrigeration, and the new-fangled automobile, and the new use (not just kerosene) of that horrible element which enrages the greenies…….oil!

  • arthurjake

    over Obama ignoring a letter from the speaker. A response would show respect and why would the Emperor show respect to anyone that has not once showed backbone on anything.

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