Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Archives

Last-Minute Order Delays Air Pollution Cuts that Would Save 34,000 Lives/Year

January 2nd, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

On Friday, December 30, a U.S. District Court of Appeals made a last-minute decision delaying an important air pollution

Rand Paul’s Pro-Polluter Bill Shot Down by Senate

November 15th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer

All but one of the Senate Democrats – and even seven Republicans – defeated a bill on Thursday that would

Obama’s EPA Cues $130 Billion Race to Cut Pollution by 2015

September 17th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer

The EPA will shut down an estimated 20% of the nation's coal plants through the ground-level ozone rule (the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) ) through cap and trade that is about to be implemented in January 2012. Opponents of the Obama administration's "over-reaching" EPA say these are costly regulations. Financial analysts estimate that the cost of this rule will be $130 billion by 2015. But if that figure is correct, that's good news for the US economy. Because there is another way of looking at that $130 billion "expense". One industry's expense is another industry's sales bonanza. For the coal industry's balance sheet, it is an expense, but think about who is going to perform this $130 billion cleanup - fairies? Hardly. This is a job for real American industries. In the most depressed economy since the Great Depression, a slew of US companies will be selling the clean energy solutions (and adding employees to manufacture them) as coal companies must begin a race to have the least polluting coal plants. Why do they have to race eachother? Simple. Cap and trade is a sort of a plutocrats' sack race