Clean Power Plan Or Not, Coal Caught In Corporate Death Squeeze (CleanTechnica Interview)
Why coal jobs are never coming back: in the face of an existential threat from climate change, global corporate titans are juicing demand for clean power.
Why coal jobs are never coming back: in the face of an existential threat from climate change, global corporate titans are juicing demand for clean power.
Apple and Tim Cook are taking the lead among American companies when it comes to promoting digital privacy and renewable energy. In a recent filing, the company supports the Clean Power Plan.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt claims the original Clean Power Plan design overstepped EPA authority. But the move to repeal and replace the plan is really about protecting Big Polluters’ bottom lines at our expense.
The latest analysis from the EPA shows that the Clean Power Plan would likely prevent even more deaths than the Obama administration claimed it would. But in the end, that may count for little as Scott Pruitt battles to bail out the coal industry.
If President Trump is serious about protecting US manufacturing jobs, he has a strange way of showing it. In just the past few days, his Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed new protections for coal and nuclear power plants, which were met with a hail of invective from, well, pretty much everybody, including leading manufacturers as well as other top US businesses.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to “withdraw” the Obama-era Clean Power Plan is intended as a sign to coal miners that “the war on coal is over” but experts are confident the repeal will not bring coal back, and States are continuing to move forward with their own climate change initiatives.
Later this week, Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, will sign an order dismantling the Clean Power Plan and consigning Americans to more polluted skies.
It’s not the perfect plan, but the Clean Power Plan developed by the Obama administration is the strongest U.S. effort yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel power plants to address climate change. So, of course, the climate science-denying, fossil-fuel marionettes of the Trump regime are eager to get rid of it.
Scott Pruitt can lead the US Environmental Protection Agency into the desert and do whatever it takes to protect the unborn, but he can’t stop clean power.
Originally published on Planetsave.com Taking cues from Trump’s exhibitionist tirades, Republicans are ramping up the rhetoric against the EPA. A recent House Energy and Commerce Committee meeting was the latest venue for Republican ranting that climaxed in a condemnation of the Clean Power Plan as “un-American.” Janet McCabe, the EPA’s … [continued]