"Salazar seeks end to dumping of mine waste" by Washington Post | April 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed by Salazar's move, arguing that more needs to be done and that the federal government has failed to enforce its own rule governing mountaintop mining practices for decades.
Yeah, POLLUTION is the REAL PROBLEM!! Not the fart mist agenda!
The ongoing dispute centers on a 1983 law that bars mining operators from dumping the massive piles of debris - which stem from blowing off the tops of mountains to get to the coal - within 100 feet of any intermittent or permanent stream if the material would harm a stream's water quality or reduce its flow. But federal and state courts have issued conflicting interpretations of the law, and widespread dumping continued....
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Can't you smell it, 'murkn?
"Electricity providers warn of price hikes" by Associated Press | April 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - American consumers would face higher electricity prices if Congress were to pass a global warming bill without giving utilities allowances to emit greenhouse gases, electricity providers warned yesterday.
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"Revenues associated with pricing greenhouse gases would be returned to the very consumers who would be at risk for paying higher energy prices," said Richard Morgan, who leads the District of Columbia's Public Service Commission.
These higher prices would be the result of legislation that would put a price on the gases linked to global warming. The providers say the best way to keep the electricity sector from passing on the cost of reducing greenhouse gases is to initially give away allowances to emit pollution, not sell them, as proposed by President Obama.
The president's budget assumes that allowances will be sold and uses the projected $650 billion in revenue to help people pay for higher energy costs and to develop new, more climate friendly energy sources.
You know, it SOUNDS GOOD, but.... pfffffft!
"It should not be legislation that is designed to raise revenue. . . . It should be something that is trying to achieve its objective of reducing carbon emissions in the country and that alone," said Glenn English, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which represents 42 million consumers living in 47 states.
If the allowances are sold, electricity customers will face what Jeffry Sterba, who spoke on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute, called a "double whammy" - paying for both the price of the allowance and the cost of technologies to reduce emissions.Bend and spread, 'murkns.
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All so a bunch of fart-misting profiteers can make a buck of a false issue.
"Democratic leaders also agreed in their tentative budget deal not to use reconciliation to pass anti-global-warming legislation, which could raise energy prices for consumers"
Thank the Lord for small fart poots!
