The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will propose a draft rule that would seek to cut power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
The rule would give flexibility to states on how to meet that goal and percentage cut will vary from state to state, two sources told the Wall Street Journal.
The EPA will propose its official draft rule on Monday, according to EPA spokesman Tom Reynolds.
“EPA will release its proposed carbon pollution reduction rule on Monday,” Reynolds told the Journal. “Until then the agency will not comment on any information that may or may not be in the proposal.”
The EPA proposes, the Congress disposes…
The Chamber of Commerce and the Koch Brothers will email their talking points Sunday night.
And it will be the usual nonsense. “These regulations are job-killers, and will cripple the U.S. economy.” That, of course, has been disproven by all the environmental regulations that have come before. Each time, the RWNJ’s have screamed about how these regs would destroy our way of life. And each time, complying with the regs has actually created jobs, and made the economy stronger.
Beyond the next few fiscal quarters, compliance usually accrues to the benefit of the industries affected. They end up being more efficient and more productive, since the regs force them to stop looking only at the next quarter’s bottom line, and invest in newer, better equipment. The payoff has a slightly longer horizon, but one measured in years, not decades.
If Dems came out in favor of kittens and puppies, the rightwing nutjobs would come out in favor of mass euthanasia of those tiny helpless creatures.
Pretending to love your country for these rightwing nutjobs doesn’t include real conservation of the environment. Oh, how they love to live in the freedom-loving wilds of the countryside, listening to the birds chirp, the flowers bloom, and the wide open skies…just don’t tell them they have to maintain that beautiful fauna and flora, keep the rivers, lakes and estuaries clean, and keep the air free of toxins for their beloved children and grandchildren or generations to come…it’ll kill those jobs!!! Conservative my ass! Now there’s your oxymoron.
30% cut per capita? 30% cut from today’s levels?