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发帖数: 3093 | 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of
its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era
effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired
power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry
lobbyist, signed a replacement rule that gives states leeway in deciding
whether to require efficiency upgrades at existing coal plants.
Wheeler said coal-fired power plants remained essential to the power grid,
something that opponents deny. "Americans want reliable energy that they can
afford," he said at a news conference. There's no denying "the fact that
fossil fuels will continue to be an important part of the mix," he said.
Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va. was one of several coal country lawmakers on
hand for the signing. He argued that power from the sun and wind was not yet
reliable enough to depend on. "We're not ready for renewable energy ... so
we need coal."
President Donald Trump campaigned partly on a pledge to bring back the coal
industry, which has been hit hard by competition from cheaper natural gas
and renewable energy.
The rule will go into effect shortly after publication in the Federal
Register. Environmental groups pledge court challenges.
"The Trump administration's outrageous Dirty Power Scam is a stunning
giveaway to big polluters, giving dirty special interests the greenlight to
choke our skies, poison our waters and worsen the climate crisis," House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement.
Joseph Goffman, an EPA official under President Barack Obama, said he feared
that the Trump administration was trying to set a legal precedent that the
Clean Air Act gives the federal government "next to no authority to do
anything" about climate-changing emissions from the country's power grid.
The Obama rule, adopted in 2015, sought to reshape the country's power
system by encouraging utilities to rely less on dirtier-burning coal-fired
power plants and more on electricity from natural gas, solar, wind and other
lower or no-carbon sources.
Burning of fossil fuels for electricity, transportation and heat is the main
human source of heat-trapping carbon emissions.
Supporters of the revised rule say the Obama-era plan overstepped the EPA's
authority.
"This action is recalibrating EPA so it aligns with being the agency to
protect public health and the environment in a way that respects the limits
of the law," said Mandy Gunasekara, a former senior official at the EPA who
helped write the replacement rule. She now runs a nonprofit, Energy45, that
supports President Donald Trump's energy initiatives.
"The Clean Power Plan was designed largely to put coal out of business,"
Gunasekara said. Trump's overhaul is meant to let states "figure out what is
best for their mission in terms of meeting modern environmental standards"
and providing affordable energy, she said.
Democrats and environmentalists say the Trump administration has ignored
scientific warnings about climate change as it sought to protect the sagging
U.S. coal industry.
"The growing climate crisis is the existential threat of our time and
President Trump's shameful response was to put lobbyists and polluters in
charge of protecting your health and safety," Pelosi said.
With coal miners at his side , Trump signed an order in March 2017 directing
the EPA to scrap the Obama rule. It was one of the first acts of his
presidency.
His pledge to roll back regulation for the coal industry helped cement
support from owners and workers in the coal industry, and others. Despite
his promise, market forces have frustrated Trump's efforts . Competition
from cheaper natural gas and renewable fuel has continued a yearslong trend
driving U.S. coal plant closings to near-record levels last year, according
to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
By encouraging utilities to consider spending money to upgrade aging coal
plants, environmental groups argue, the Trump rule could prompt the
companies to run existing coal plants harder and longer rather than retiring
them.
"It's a rule to increase emissions because it's a rule to extend the life of
coal plants," said Conrad Schneider, advocacy director of the Clean Air
Task Force. "You invest in updating an old coal plant, it makes it more
economic" to run it more to pay off that investment.
An Associated Press analysis Tuesday of federal air data showed U.S.
progress on cleaning the air may be stagnating after decades of improvement.
There were 15% more days with unhealthy air in America both last year and
the year before than there were on average from 2013 through 2016, the four
years when America had its fewest number of those days since at least 1980.
Trump has repeatedly claimed just the opposite, saying earlier this month in
Ireland: "We have the cleanest air in the world, in the United States, and
it's gotten better since I'm president."
Along with an initiative requiring tougher mileage standards for cars and
light trucks, the Clean Power Plan was one of Obama's two legacy efforts to
slow climate change. The Trump administration also is proposing to roll back
the Obama-era mileage standards, with a final rule expected shortly.
Environmental groups promise court challenges to both rollbacks.
Trump has rejected scientific warnings on climate change, including a report
this year from scientists at more than a dozen federal agencies noting that
global warming from fossil fuels "presents growing challenges to human
health and quality of life."
The EPA's own regulatory analysis last year estimated that Trump's
replacement ACE rule would kill an extra 300 to 1,500 people each year by
2030, owing to additional air pollution from the power grid. | k**i
发帖数: 10191 | 2 你丫到底看得懂么？光看前面，这不是老川履行竞选承诺么？重新应用煤炭能源？他把
奥巴马时代要求升级火电厂到清洁能源的要求废除掉了，改由州自行决定。这叫怂？你
么估计一个字没看懂吧？
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【在 y**h 的大作中提到】
: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of
: its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era
: effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired
: power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.
: Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry
: lobbyist, signed a replacement rule that gives states leeway in deciding
: whether to require efficiency upgrades at existing coal plants.
: Wheeler said coal-fired power plants remained essential to the power grid,
: something that opponents deny. "Americans want reliable energy that they can
: afford," he said at a news conference. There's no denying "the fact that
| e*n
发帖数: 1511 | 3 文盲吧？
：WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday completed one of
：its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-
era effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-
fired | r*****e
发帖数: 21 | 4 哈哈。让左兄自我麻醉虾也算好事
【在 k**i 的大作中提到】
: 你丫到底看得懂么？光看前面，这不是老川履行竞选承诺么？重新应用煤炭能源？他把
: 奥巴马时代要求升级火电厂到清洁能源的要求废除掉了，改由州自行决定。这叫怂？你
: 么估计一个字没看懂吧？
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| x******h
发帖数: 13678 | 5 吓我一跳，我以为天然气又能涨回来了呢，md差点弄错了，LZ以后小心点 | m**********g
发帖数: 919 | 6 对左逼5毛的英文的英文水平不要期待太高。
【在 k**i 的大作中提到】
: 你丫到底看得懂么？光看前面，这不是老川履行竞选承诺么？重新应用煤炭能源？他把
: 奥巴马时代要求升级火电厂到清洁能源的要求废除掉了，改由州自行决定。这叫怂？你
: 么估计一个字没看懂吧？
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: era
: industry
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| B*Q
发帖数: 25729 | | V*******n
发帖数: 1 | 8 作死吧，反正2100年世界末日的时候这个版没一个还活着。2100以后人类的平均身高1.
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