http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/obama-carbon-limits_n_3958693.html
Listed above is a link to an article that gives an
inside look at President Obama's new coal burning power plant policy that he
will be pressing forward with starting on Friday September 20, 2013. His plans
are to help lower the amount of emissions that the United States power plants
produce, which at it's current rate is, in his own words, "the limitless dumping of carbon pollution" into our
atmosphere. This is an important step in his global warming plans, and will
force the United States to make the shift to using more alternative
cleaner methods of power. The new policy won’t necessarily affect the
plants already in operation, but will instead be enforced with the new plants
that are being built. He states that eventually the plants that are already in
operation will be forced to limit their carbon emissions, which currently
accounts for one third of all the U.S.’s greenhouse gas emissions. To help put
into perspective the importance of limiting these emissions, a modern coal
plant without carbon emission controls would release about 1,800 pounds per
megawatt hour into our atmosphere. President Obama has said also that the
public will have opportunities to comment on the rule before it is implemented.
Obama has been working on this plan since 2011 and relates his case to a 1971
case relating the control of air pollution. The EPA will seek comments on
whether to subject three coal plants that are currently in various stages of
being built to Obama’s new standard, or treat them as existing sources. They
are the Sunflower Electric Power Corp.'s facility near Holcomb, Kan.,
Power4Georgian's planned Washington County, Ga., facility, and Wolverine Power
Cooperative's plans for a new power plant near Rogers City, Mich. What do you
think? Is this a beneficial move for the United States? I certainly think so!
