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EPA Head Misleads The Public in Her Crusade against Coal

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DRUID QUEEN, LISA JACKSON, A LIAR - WHAT A SURPRISE.
Religious zealots will distort and misrepresent any situation to suit their ends, and so it has always been.
The Official State Religion of Environmentalism and its enforcement arm, the EPA, will not rest until they march the survivors of humanity, dying and starving, back to the caves.
GOING GREEN HAS GONE TOTALLY NUTS

R.L. Schaefer of CA 7:43PM November 14, 2011

Mr. Gilfillan:
The EPA's own New Source Review requirements have made it more difficult -- not easier -- to install advance pollution controls at older facilities. Perhaps the Administrator could add NSR reform to the current slate of regulations currently being promulgated by the EPA.
The fact is, over the past 30 years, the industry has cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) emissions by 70 percent. Ozone emissions in the eastern United States have been cut by 80 percent. These efforts also have cut emissions of mercury by about 50 percent. During this same time period, electricity use increased 79 percent.
And if they don't already do so, that is a story that industry should consistently and powerfully tell. And by the way, the Clean Air Act has not delivered those remarkable air quality improvements, the industry did.
Finally, if you you could do me a favor and send the press release from Administrator Jackson powerfully telling the story in EPA's latest air quality trends report (which shows that air quality is as good as it has been since EPA has been keeping such records), I would appreciate it.

Thomas Pyle of DC 4:50PM November 09, 2011

You wouldn't happen to have any bias would you Mr. Pyle?
"The Institute for Energy Research is funded largely with donations from ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. Tom Pyle, Institute for Energy Research President, is a former Koch Industries lobbyist, and the group is made up of former GOP Energy Committee staffers and industry representatives."

MaxShelby of CA 12:34PM November 07, 2011

When I was a young person, a documentary titled We Will Freeze in the Dark was very popular. It was scary and seemed unreal. We will be there if the environmental policies are not changed.
These figures need to be brought to the American people in a big way. How to reach them before it is too late is a big issue.
Occupy groups all over the country are bemoaning the fact that there are no jobs, but fail to see the massive job loss these unnecessary new regulations will produce. We need to get it together before it is too late.

Lucinda Szalankiewicz of PA 11:33AM November 07, 2011

The EPA people well for that matter all of obumers team would choke to death if they told the truth.

GRG of VA 10:44AM November 07, 2011

This author is the one who conveniently ignores facts. By taking her comments out of context, he ignores the real fact that in every case, the coal and utility industry has fought doing all the things he wants to claim were done by the industry to clean up.
Her point was that the industry has had to be forced to clean up their act and resists every conceivable opportunity to clean up.
Just look at the situation with coal ash and air toxics. More than 33 years has gone by since these things should have had regulations established and enforced but because of the political power of the industry, even those rules at this late date remain in jeopardy.

John Blair of IN 7:00PM November 05, 2011

If you want energy efficiency and cleaner air, banning coal plants is absolutely the STUPIDEST way to do it. Ditto for mileage standards, light bulb bans and emission limits.
The best mechanism to increase efficiency is a simple, single-rate CARBON TAX.
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Why impose thousands of clumsy and circumlocutory regulations on businesses to control carbon emissions or fuel efficiency like EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson does when a single, simple-to-calculate, simple-to-administer, revenue-generating carbon tax can get the job done?
That’s what the LMAD plan does.
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LMADster of GA 4:13PM November 04, 2011

Mr Pyle -
Any fair reading of the story you link to makes clear that the Administrator was not talking about the industry as a whole but about individual facilities that have been in use for decades and have not installed advanced pollution controls. Administrator Jackson has consistently and powerfully told the story of the remarkable air quality improvements the Clean Air Act has delivered for the American people for the past 40 years.
Brendan Gilfillan
Office of External Affairs, US Environmental Protection Agency

Brendan Gilfillan of DC 11:49AM November 04, 2011