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Mainecoons
06-25-2013, 08:21 AM
Daniel P. Schrag, a White House climate adviser and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, tells the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-gases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) "a war on coal is exactly what's needed." Later today, President Obama will give a major "climate change" address at Georgetown University.
“Everybody is waiting for action,” Schrag tells the paper. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
Obama's speech today is expected to offer "a sweeping plan to address climate change on Tuesday, setting ambitious goals and timetables for a series of executive actions to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and prepare the nation for the ravages of a warming planet," according to the Times.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html

jillian
06-25-2013, 08:26 AM
lol.. in your "opinion".

Mainecoons
06-25-2013, 08:27 AM
My opinion:


Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”

LOL is right.

Mainecoons
06-25-2013, 08:34 AM
Oh my oh my and in the Chicago Tribune no less:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-17/business/ct-biz-0517-rate-shock-20120517_1_coal-plant-electricity-producers-electricity-costs


Pricing trends in the PJM Interconnection are showing troubling signs concerning the impact on electricity rates of power-plant retirements due EPA regulations. EPA has called PJM Interconnection’s operating region “one of the largest and most heavily dependent on coal-fuel generation in the country.” Much of this coal generation is in an area PJM calls the “RTO,” which encompasses states like Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Last May, PJM Interconnection held its Future Capacity Auction for 2014/2015, the first to incorporate Utility MACT requirements. During that Auction, future capacity prices in the RTO increased by an incredible 350 percent. PJM concluded the vast majority of this increase was due to requirements “to meet increasingly stringent environmental regulations.” According to the Chicago Tribune, these price increases will cause Chicago-area electricity bills to go up $107 to $178 per year and raise annual costs for Chicago Public Schools by $2.7 million, $3.3 million for the Metropolitan Water District, and $5.4 million for Chicago’s city government.

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/epa-powerplant-closures/

Plus put a bunch more people out of good jobs. Obama-the working man's enemy.

Chris
06-25-2013, 08:43 AM
If it kills jobs and increases electricity bills then it will hurt an already slow recovering economy.

ptif219
06-25-2013, 09:08 AM
lol.. in your "opinion".

This is Obama political pandering and hurting the poor and middleclass when there has been no warming for over a decade.

Obama needs to fix the economy and jobs which should be the priority on the lie of global warming.

This just shows Obama has no leadership qualities and knows nothing about governing but is a bully

Obama is showing us all what a lame duck partisan hack he is

Chris
06-25-2013, 09:14 AM
This is as much pandering to and placating environmentalists as Keystone was.