https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-from-coal-plants-not-necessary-idUSKCN1OR1BU
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday said limits on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were not necessary as their costs outweighed the benefits, sparking an outcry among environmentalists who say the move favors the coal industry at the expense of public health.
Under the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, or MATS, enacted under former President Barack Obama, coal-burning power plants have been forced to install expensive equipment to cut output of mercury, which can harm pregnant women and put infants and children at risk of developmental problems.
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Another Obama-era environmental protection regulation bights the dust, this time to benefit the coal industry. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin found both in coal ash waste & in plant stack emissions. It is a very serious environmental threat.
Ingesting poison to own the libs.
Well, finally all those out-of-work coal miners can stop learning a new trade and get back to work on their black-lung and ground-water pollution.
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin found both in coal ash waste & in plant stack emissions.
****ing Christ. Minimizing the amount of mercury that coal power plants release should not be a partisan issue. Pretty sad commentary that it is. :doh
The type of people who vote for Trump are the people who say "wasteful regulations!" at everything.
If finally cornered and challenged on that point, and if they don't jump thread, many will grudgingly say "oh well I'm not saying all regulations are bad. But this one is!" Of course, they do not have the training or experience in the relevant scientific field and/or in the relevant mathematics to judge whether or not a cost-benefit analysis came out the right way. They don't have a clue. You need to go beyond calculus (or at least, the first half of a decent college-level calculus course) and learn a bunch of economics to have a shot of analyzing one on the math side. Etc.
And then they're burying their spouse or their parent who died early from some preventable cancer because of some toxic spill or whatever, back in a time before the regulation they are raging at was implemented......
...and without knowing it, they support stripping those things away willy-nilly, knowing that they don't know whether what they say is true.
It's as infuriating as it is depressing. 15-20ish years after more seriously looking at politics and its results, I'm more than a little bitter.
I'm not aware of the specifics of the regulation (output with and without), but mercury almost wiped out the alligators of the Everglades. It basically did end the Florida Panther. We had to import cougars to save the population. Mercury biomagnifies.
Swordfish is a good example of mercury being magnified by living things. Growing up in a Catholic household, I ate my share of this fish on Fridays. The joke used to be that if you ate enough you could have made a mercury thermometer.
The type of people who vote for Trump are the people who say "wasteful regulations!" at everything.
If finally cornered and challenged on that point, and if they don't jump thread, many will grudgingly say "oh well I'm not saying all regulations are bad. But this one is!" Of course, they do not have the training or experience in the relevant scientific field and/or in the relevant mathematics to judge whether or not a cost-benefit analysis came out the right way. They don't have a clue. You need to go beyond calculus (or at least, the first half of a decent college-level calculus course) and learn a bunch of economics to have a shot of analyzing one on the math side. Etc.
And then they're burying their spouse or their parent who died early from some preventable cancer because of some toxic spill or whatever, back in a time before the regulation they are raging at was implemented......
...and without knowing it, they support stripping those things away willy-nilly, knowing that they don't know whether what they say is true.
It's as infuriating as it is depressing. 15-20ish years after more seriously looking at politics and its results, I'm more than a little bitter.
A lot of EPA superfund sites were created during & after WWII when it was balls to the wall & the only thing that mattered was production.
Ingesting poison to own the libs.
Watched Chapter 11 of Anthony Bourdain's CNN series, set in W Virginia, on Netflix. It was said that a skilled mine worker could made $94K/year. But who wants to drive 100 miles to get to the nearest Walmart?
Top predators.
Had my share of Mahi, King and such from the Stream, and Snapper, Shark, even Grouper in the 70s from Biscayne Bay. Not many Bass from the Glades, thankfully.
Why should our health, planet and environment be jeopardized by 19th century technology? For what? Donors, 100,000 votes?
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