https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...p-u-s-coal-plants-from-retiring-idUSKCN1P80BY
(Reuters) - More U.S. coal-fired power plants were shut in President Donald Trump’s first two years than were retired in the whole of Barack Obama’s first term, despite the Republican’s efforts to prop up the industry to keep a campaign promise to coal-mining states.
In total, more than 23,400 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired generation were shut in 2017-2018 versus 14,900 MW in 2009-2012, according to data from Reuters and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Trump had tried unsuccessfully as we see to help shore up the coal industries in states like KY & WY by loosening Obama-era environmental regulations but to no avail. Economics & pollution are factors that are increasingly making coal-fired electric power plants unsupportable.
And? So what?
And? So what?
So one of the things that won Trump the election was his promise to necromance the coal industry vs. Hillary’s plan to phase it out with training so people still had jobs on the other side. Could cost him in 2020.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...p-u-s-coal-plants-from-retiring-idUSKCN1P80BY
(Reuters) - More U.S. coal-fired power plants were shut in President Donald Trump’s first two years than were retired in the whole of Barack Obama’s first term, despite the Republican’s efforts to prop up the industry to keep a campaign promise to coal-mining states.
In total, more than 23,400 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired generation were shut in 2017-2018 versus 14,900 MW in 2009-2012, according to data from Reuters and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Trump had tried unsuccessfully as we see to help shore up the coal industries in states like KY & WY by loosening Obama-era environmental regulations but to no avail. Economics & pollution are factors that are increasingly making coal-fired electric power plants unsupportable.
Coal plants polluting water is a mainstream media lie. Stop believing those leftist commies. Alex Jones has the whole scoop on why mercury is good for us. /tongueincheekWhen you deregulate dirty industries it just hurts workers and the people that live nearby. If deregulation doesn't actually save an industry, which was the idea with coal, it probably isn't worth the increase in black lung and polluted water sources that we get in return.
When you deregulate dirty industries it just hurts workers and the people that live nearby. If deregulation doesn't actually save an industry, which was the idea with coal, it probably isn't worth the increase in black lung and polluted water sources that we get in return.
Coal plants polluting water is a mainstream media lie. Stop believing those leftist commies. Alex Jones has the whole scoop on why mercury is good for us. /tongueincheek
Trump promised not to regulate the industry out of existence, he has kept this promise. Hillary was never going to deliver retraining, she had no intention of doing any such thing. And it’s not the government’s job to do that anyway
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You've never drank contaminated water, have you? Of course not, you're still alive.The electricity provided by coal
Is infinitely more valuable then pure water on a dollar basis
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You've never drank contaminated water, have you? Of course not, you're still alive.
Of course not, i have a well and not a socialist public water system run by liberal democrats (a la Flint) and thus my water is clean
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Until that coal factory mercury leaches into it.Of course not, i have a well and not a socialist public water system run by liberal democrats (a la Flint) and thus my water is clean
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Its telling that it's not the fact that the energy sector is naturally phasing put coal energy without artificial deterrents that your celebrating.So one of the things that won Trump the election was his promise to necromance the coal industry vs. Hillary’s plan to phase it out with training so people still had jobs on the other side. Could cost him in 2020.
I don't need to take a right wing economics course to understand what I can see with my own eyes. Do yourself a favor and drive around some mining towns.No, when you deregulate any industry the workers and people who live nearby benefit. Your statement is false and clearly the result of not properly understanding economics.
If deregulation does save the industry (as it actually has in certain places) you still wouldn’t believe it’s worth some abstract concept of “polluted water” well actually you have no problem with polluted air and water at all as long as it’s overseas and comes from battery production
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No, when you deregulate any industry the workers and people who live nearby benefit. Your statement is false and clearly the result of not properly understanding economics.
If deregulation does save the industry (as it actually has in certain places) you still wouldn’t believe it’s worth some abstract concept of “polluted water” well actually you have no problem with polluted air and water at all as long as it’s overseas and comes from battery production
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The electricity provided by coal
Is infinitely more valuable then pure water on a dollar basis
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Go to Flint and drink the water, then.
I really don’t think saving the oldest, dirtiest, ****tiest form of energy we have is worth poisoning children, no.
It depends on cost. The benefits of electricity affordable to the public are so great that it would take an extreme level of pollution never seen before in mankind’s history to make it not worth it
When mankind lived on only organic locally grown fair trade commodities the life expectancy was the mid 40s
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