Great news from President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency - from the New York Times:
E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule
The Trump administration announced on Monday that it would take formal steps to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, setting up a bitter fight over the future of America’s efforts to tackle global warming.
At an event in eastern Kentucky, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that his predecessors had departed from regulatory norms in crafting the Clean Power Plan, which was finalized in 2015 and would have pushed states to move away from coal in favor of sources of electricity that produce fewer carbon emissions.
“The war on coal is over,” Mr. Pruitt said. “Tomorrow in Washington, D.C., I will be signing a proposed rule to roll back the Clean Power Plan. No better place to make that announcement than Hazard, Ky.”
Good - we have about 500 years of coal left given our current rate of energy consumption. Clean coal plants can be built, older plants can be retrofitted. Use what we have to bootstrap ourselves into energy of the future - Thorium and LFTRs. The one thing that stands in the way of human progress is expensive energy - cheap energy is what fueled the industrial revolution, the five day work-week, labor saving devices, technology as we know it. All as a direct result of cheap energy.
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