EPA to Coal Plants: ‘Smoke em if you got em, boys
8 painful years of moving backwards, and now, the first in a long line of 11th hour, lameduck edicts.
The Environmental Protection Agency is working at the Bush administration’s direction on a new rule that would weaken regulations for power plants, allowing them to increase emissions without adding pollution controls…
The Clean Air Act requires older plants that have their lives extended with new equipment to install pollution-control technology if their emissions increase. The rule change would allow plants to measure emissions on an hourly basis, rather than total yearly output. This way, plants could run for more hours and increase overall emissions without exceeding the threshold that would require adding pollution controls.
The WaPo editorial board is all over the latest development in the administration’s longstanding doublespeak towards climate change.
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