If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their smokestacks, technology now used by fewer than 20 of the nation’s 3,400 coal and gas-fired plants, according to three people who were briefed on the rule.
If implemented, the proposed regulation would be the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which generate about 25 percent of the planet-warming pollution produced by the United States. It would also apply to future plants.
Almost all coal and gas-fired power plants would have to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, according to the people familiar with the regulation, who asked not to be identified because the rule has not been made public.
The proposed rule is sure to face opposition from the fossil fuel industry, power plant operators and their allies in Congress. It is likely to draw an immediate legal challenge from a group of Republican attorneys general that has already sued the Biden administration to stop other climate policies. A future administration could also weaken the regulation. …
The regulation, proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, is being reviewed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and could still be adjusted. …
It would not mandate the use of carbon capture equipment, a nascent and expensive technology; rather, it would set caps on pollution rates that plant operators would have to meet. They could do that by using a different technology or, in the case of gas plants, switching to a fuel source like green hydrogen, which does not emit carbon, according to the people familiar with the matter. But the regulation could lead to the broader adoption of carbon capture technology, the people said. …
If those three regulations are implemented as proposed, they would significantly reduce the planet-warming pollution created by the world’s largest economy. Together with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, a law that is pouring $370 billion into clean energy programs, they would put the country on track to meet Mr. Biden’s pledge to cut the country’s emissions roughly in half by 2030, and to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2050. …
Authors David Corn (“American Psychosis”), Robert Draper (“Weapons of Mass Delusion”), Tim Miller (“Why We Did It”) and Chris Whipple (“The Fight of His Life”) discussed the evolution of the Republican Party. This event was part of the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books.
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{ 1 hour video at the link }
Ron (RC) Weakley (A.K.A., Darryl For A While At EV) says:
The recent history is relatively interesting, starting with FDR and what happened to the Dem party, which was founded ostensibly by Jefferson, Madison & Monroe as a ‘states rights’ party. Eventually opposed by the GOP which was an abolitionist party founded around 1845, and loathsome to the Dems who were pro-slavery.
Eventually FDR took over the Dem party, was supported by southern states until his liberal stances (especially on civil rights) caused a breakaway faction to form – the DixieCrats, who were opposed to GOP and ‘liberal’ Dems alike. Eventually, due to the efforts of Dick Nixon, Strom Thurmond & probably George Wallace (& LBJ?), the DixieCrats got over their loathing & took over the ‘official’ GOP.
Goldwater, LBJ, and Reagan are the archetypes of our recent elitist representative dollar democracy republican system, but it reflects back all the way to the days immediately following the American Revolutionary War of Independence. Once old Thomas Paine was well out of the way in a French jail, our elites were free to architect a new aristocratic system of governance based on inherited wealth with one political party grounded in banking and industrialism and the other political party grounded in property (economic) rents (both land and slaves). The first ten amendments to the US Constitution were an afterthought as well as a convenient democratic fig leaf to cover over the very undemocratic reality. After all, during the early “go west young man” years the principle role of the federal government was to round up natives and confine them to reservations and otherwise protect the frontier settlers.
After the unCivil War, dominant conservatives organized weapons of mass instruction as a bulwark against informed consent of the governed and the subordinate conservatives organized via pandering all those constituents that the dominant party had rejected (immigrants, unions, post-Reconstruction Southern whites). After failure of the progressive movement to institute change in the Republican party with one Roosevelt POTUS, then progressives moved to the Democratic Party under the next Roosevelt POTUS. The Republican Party had by then existed successfully for seven decades without sharing effective governing power with their domestic political adversaries which made them crazy when they lost (McCarthy-ism). It took the Republican Party until Nixon in 1968 to fully realize how to capitalize on crazy, but it would have been impossible if not for their effective co-opting of the public education system shortly after the end of the Civil War on the one hand and folding like a cheap card table on Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule on the other hand.
Under Trump, the remnants of Federalists are practically unrecognizable as their largest group of constituents are now more feral than federal. However, it is still just an evolution of a mis-representative aristocratic system of governance adapting itself to its own repugnant values and pathetic failures. In what universe do people believe that they can be honestly represented by a billionaire man of the people? There are not enough oxen on the entire planet to elevate that moron so high (Pun alert – oxymoron).
EPA to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants
NY Times – April 22
If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their smokestacks, technology now used by fewer than 20 of the nation’s 3,400 coal and gas-fired plants, according to three people who were briefed on the rule.
If implemented, the proposed regulation would be the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which generate about 25 percent of the planet-warming pollution produced by the United States. It would also apply to future plants.
Almost all coal and gas-fired power plants would have to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, according to the people familiar with the regulation, who asked not to be identified because the rule has not been made public.
The proposed rule is sure to face opposition from the fossil fuel industry, power plant operators and their allies in Congress. It is likely to draw an immediate legal challenge from a group of Republican attorneys general that has already sued the Biden administration to stop other climate policies. A future administration could also weaken the regulation. …
The regulation, proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, is being reviewed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and could still be adjusted. …
It would not mandate the use of carbon capture equipment, a nascent and expensive technology; rather, it would set caps on pollution rates that plant operators would have to meet. They could do that by using a different technology or, in the case of gas plants, switching to a fuel source like green hydrogen, which does not emit carbon, according to the people familiar with the matter. But the regulation could lead to the broader adoption of carbon capture technology, the people said. …
The proposal comes on the heels of two other Biden administration plans to cut tailpipe emissions dramatically by speeding up the country’s transition to electric vehicles, and curb methane leaks from oil and gas wells.
If those three regulations are implemented as proposed, they would significantly reduce the planet-warming pollution created by the world’s largest economy. Together with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, a law that is pouring $370 billion into clean energy programs, they would put the country on track to meet Mr. Biden’s pledge to cut the country’s emissions roughly in half by 2030, and to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2050. …
Hey, Happy Earth Day!
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526206-17/evolution-republican-party
Evolution of the Republican Party
Authors David Corn (“American Psychosis”), Robert Draper (“Weapons of Mass Delusion”), Tim Miller (“Why We Did It”) and Chris Whipple (“The Fight of His Life”) discussed the evolution of the Republican Party. This event was part of the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books.
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{ 1 hour video at the link }
After posting link and summary above, then I logged into my Amazon Prime account and ordered a hardback copy of each book for a total of $78.31.
Evolution of the GOP…
The recent history is relatively interesting, starting with FDR and what happened to the Dem party, which was founded ostensibly by Jefferson, Madison & Monroe as a ‘states rights’ party. Eventually opposed by the GOP which was an abolitionist party founded around 1845, and loathsome to the Dems who were pro-slavery.
Eventually FDR took over the Dem party, was supported by southern states until his liberal stances (especially on civil rights) caused a breakaway faction to form – the DixieCrats, who were opposed to GOP and ‘liberal’ Dems alike. Eventually, due to the efforts of Dick Nixon, Strom Thurmond & probably George Wallace (& LBJ?), the DixieCrats got over their loathing & took over the ‘official’ GOP.
That’s pretty much it.
Not to diminish the ‘contributions’ of Ronald Reagan & Barry Goldwater, however.
Goldwater, LBJ, and Reagan are the archetypes of our recent elitist representative dollar democracy republican system, but it reflects back all the way to the days immediately following the American Revolutionary War of Independence. Once old Thomas Paine was well out of the way in a French jail, our elites were free to architect a new aristocratic system of governance based on inherited wealth with one political party grounded in banking and industrialism and the other political party grounded in property (economic) rents (both land and slaves). The first ten amendments to the US Constitution were an afterthought as well as a convenient democratic fig leaf to cover over the very undemocratic reality. After all, during the early “go west young man” years the principle role of the federal government was to round up natives and confine them to reservations and otherwise protect the frontier settlers.
After the unCivil War, dominant conservatives organized weapons of mass instruction as a bulwark against informed consent of the governed and the subordinate conservatives organized via pandering all those constituents that the dominant party had rejected (immigrants, unions, post-Reconstruction Southern whites). After failure of the progressive movement to institute change in the Republican party with one Roosevelt POTUS, then progressives moved to the Democratic Party under the next Roosevelt POTUS. The Republican Party had by then existed successfully for seven decades without sharing effective governing power with their domestic political adversaries which made them crazy when they lost (McCarthy-ism). It took the Republican Party until Nixon in 1968 to fully realize how to capitalize on crazy, but it would have been impossible if not for their effective co-opting of the public education system shortly after the end of the Civil War on the one hand and folding like a cheap card table on Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule on the other hand.
Under Trump, the remnants of Federalists are practically unrecognizable as their largest group of constituents are now more feral than federal. However, it is still just an evolution of a mis-representative aristocratic system of governance adapting itself to its own repugnant values and pathetic failures. In what universe do people believe that they can be honestly represented by a billionaire man of the people? There are not enough oxen on the entire planet to elevate that moron so high (Pun alert – oxymoron).