Comments on: EPA Puts a Price on Nothingness in Montana: $82 Million

By: Yes, America, There Is a War on Coal - COALBURNINGFUELS.COM

Yes, America, There Is a War on Coal - COALBURNINGFUELS.COM — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:35:50 +0000

[...] For existing coal-fired power plants, EPA’s strategy is to impose three types of expensive retrofits on every existing coal-fired power plant, regardless whether or not they would serve an actual purpose. The three controls are: selective catalytic reduction for nitrogen oxides; scrubbers for sulfur dioxide; and electrostatic filters for fine particulate matter. The aforementioned Utility MACT would require scrubbers and electrostatic filters. EPA is using the Regional Haze rule to compel selective catalytic reduction systems. Regional Haze is thearchetype of all-pain, no-gain regulation. It’s an aesthetic regulation, whose benefits are literallyinvisible. [...]

By: Yes, America, There Is a War on Coal

Yes, America, There Is a War on Coal — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:29:28 +0000

[...] of all-pain, no-gain regulation. It’s an aesthetic regulation, whose benefits are literally invisible.All told, these emissions control systems cost hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars. With [...]

By: Don Vandervelde

Don Vandervelde — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:02:34 +0000

Keep the pressure on. Make the freedom=hating, power-greedy pols declare themselves on the record by their votes, so their constituents can recognize them as such and vote them out in the next cycle. It works!