President Trump moved Tuesday to unravel a host of energy regulations imposed by his predecessor, targeting in particular the Obama administration’s signature program that was intended to curb carbon emissions – but blasted by Republicans for hurting the already-struggling coal industry.
With a sweeping executive order signed at EPA headquarters, Trump initiated an immediate review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. Surrounded by coal miners, the president described that plan as a “crushing attack” on workers and vowed to nix “job-killing regulations.”
“We’re going to have safety, we’re going to have clean water, we’re going to have clean air, but so many [regulations] are unnecessary, so many are job-killing,” he said.
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I remember during the 2012 Presidential Debates when Romney stated that Obama the Communist was against coal and the liar in chief, Obama stated that he was for coal. Liberal = LIAR!
I remember this. Romney was brought to tears when he saw just how badly into disrepair the coal industry had fallen. In 2012 he might have been enough to turn things around. Now things are worse and we need a Trump.
I’m so glad Trump is pro-energy. All of the above. Coal, gas, oil, solar, nuclear, everything. I’m still up for biodiesel. Just not corn ethanol. End that mess.
We can make clean coal power plants, and we should. They have them in Pennsylvania. They put out electricity just as good as the smokey way.
Pretty soon, solar is poised to become cheaper than coal. Oh well. We keep coal until it doesn’t make sense anymore. But don’t kill it early. Eventually the people of WV will need to do something else. It’s coming. But coal probably has another 20-30 years worth of value and America is the king of coal.
Basically put all forms of energy in the ring and let them fight it out. Whichever one wins will dominate the energy sector.
[I’m so glad Trump is pro-energy. All of the above. Coal, gas, oil, solar, nuclear, everything. I’m still up for biodiesel. Just not corn ethanol. End that mess.]
And when you see how much corn is needed to make that ethanol, WE could ensure no one starves with that amount of wasted food..
Clean coal-burning plants provide good energy.
And if you note, since we converted a lot of power plants to ‘renewable energy sources’ we see m to have MORE power outages/rolling brown/black outs than before when we used just that evil coal??
Good job Mr. President.
There has been substantial money spent to enhance clean operation of coal fired power plants. For instance, the Breyton Point power plant accross from Fall River, Massachusetts recently spent 620 million on the cooling towers. The plant is scheduled to close in May of this year.
This will put a huge tax burden on the residents as well as a huge increase in the residential and business electrical power costs. With this announcement by President Trump, the life of the power plant will hopefully be saved along with the jobs and the severe cost burden to the residents and businesses in the area.
Congratulations, President Trump. Once again, it shows that you will be saving and
creating jobs. Another promise kept.
cgretired, those soaring electric bills and increased blackouts, power rationing, etc. that would have resulted from the shutdown of all those coal-powered plants–including all the NEWER, CLEANER BURNING ONES like the Breyton plant you described–were all part of Obama’s plan to weaken and BANKRUPT this country.
Remember how he GLEEFULLY predicted that “of course electric rates will necessarily have to SYKROCKET” when he was detailing his GREAT PLAN to disrupt our power grid by shutting down HALF the power plants when there was NOTHING in place to replace that lost generating capacity?
Oh yes, I remember it well. He was so proud of what he was doing. I just cannot imagine how he got away with it, he did that so often and he got a free ride from the do-nothing congress.
My brother lives near the Breton power plant. He is a real conservative.. imagine that.. in Massachusetts. Anyway, he never had anything good to say about obama let alone the coal business and closing down coal power plants. What really got to him and me was that they spent 620 million to upgrade the cooling towers and to clean up the emissions then they got notified that they would be closing by May of this year. I hope the coal production can restart fast enough to ensure they get the product they need to continue generating electricity.
Making America great again, one executive order at a time, despite the subterfuge and sabotage of the demoncraps and republican establishment in congress.
About time. Thank you, Mr. President.
So far Trump has done more for the US with his what 8 Eos, in 2 months since taking office, than OBAMA did in his entire 8 years!!
Isn’t it AMAZING, ituser, how MUCH can be accomplished by a President who actually LOVES this country and wants to preserve/protect/improve it, compared to a nasty little COMMUNIST sociopath who HATED this country and spent all his time devising ways to weaken and BANKRUPT us, the better to reduce us to Third World status?
Yes it is teabag. And that’s why so many liberals and commucrats are doing all they can to thwart Don in all he does. CAUSE THEY DON’T want there to be a strong USA..
THANK you, President Trump, for putting a stop to the job-killing and costly regulations issued by Obama and the unelected BUREAUCRATS of the EPA.
Had Obama’s “clean air initiative” taken effect, we would have Third World style brown-outs, blackouts, and power rationing, because his regulations would have GUTTED the power grid by FORCING the shut-down of HUNDREDS of coal-fired power plants–even though new smokestack designs and OTHER technology had GREATLY reduced polluting air emissions from those plants. It did not seem to matter to Obama and his policy “enforcers” at EPA that there was NOTHING in place to provide the power generating capability we’d be losing because of his being hellbent on shutting down all the coal-fired power plants!
Obama mandated installation of “smart” meters on EVERY customer of power companies soon as he took office, so that after he succeeded in virtually ERASING a good percentage of our power grid electric generating capacity, he could initiate POWER RATIONING through the smart meters. Since installing those was one of the FIRST THINGS he did, it is obvious that getting control of electricity consumption was part of his plan from DAY ONE. Just another COMMUNIST-STYLE power play to control every aspect of your life. His “clean air initiative” was the LAST piece of that plan falling into place so he could further hasten the slide of the US into Third World status by DELIBERATELY disrupting the power grid.
I guess Obama forgot to mention in his ZEAL to shut down all the coal-producing power plants that his master, George SOROS was running around buying up all the BANKRUPT coal mines for PENNIES on the dollar, so that once those regulations kicked in and all the coal-fired plants were shut down, he could sell the coal at HUGE PROFITS to OTHER COUNTRIES who still used coal-fired plants.
In the MEANTIME, since there was NOTHING IN PLACE to replace the lost power generating capacity after Obama’s plan to shut down all the coal-fired power plants took effect, Americans would have been subject to brownouts, blackouts, and POWER RATIONING, courtesy of the “smart” meters Obama commanded to be installed on your home as one of his FIRST actions after taking office. His plan was to disrupt our power grid, DIMINISH our generating capacity, thus further assuring our slide into Third World status. This wholesale interruption of the American power grid was part of his DESTRUCTIVE plans for seizing dictatorial power over us from DAY ONE.
THANK YOU, President Trump, for defusing yet ANOTHER of that nasty, power-mad little sociopath’s anti-American TIME BOMBS!