No Longer will Power Plants be able to spew CO2 into the atmosphere, like an open sewer.
The EPA will be regulating their CO2 output, like they do for their other pollutant outputs.
Finally!
A Climate Breakthrough: EPA Releases New Carbon Limits for New Power Plants
by Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council, huffingtonpost.com -- 09/20/2013
The Obama administration struck a forceful blow against climate change today. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed standards that will limit dangerous carbon pollution from new power plants. No longer will new electric plants be allowed to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it causes. Instead, our nation can start creating a 21st century power fleet -- one that uses the latest clean technologies and reduces the threat of climate change.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce the dangerous carbon pollution from our country's largest source: power plants. Right now there is no limit on how much carbon these plants can pump into our atmosphere. America has already set standards for arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution. It's time to do the same with dangerous carbon emissions, and the standards proposed today will get us going.
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WTG EPA! (This is why voting D, kind of matters. Lame duck, my eye.)
And it seems like these 'new regs' have the "Good Planet-Keeping" seal of approval:
Al Gore: New EPA rule puts U.S. on path to solve climate crisis
by Andrew Restuccia, politico.com -- 9/20/13
Former Vice President Al Gore said EPA’s regulations for future power plants are a major step toward putting the United States “on the path toward solving the climate crisis.”
“Today’s announcement by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is an important step forward for our nation and our planet. From now on, future coal- and gas-fired power plants must take responsibility for their global warming pollution by reducing or capturing their overall emissions,” Gore, a vocal advocate for action on climate change, wrote on his blog Friday.
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Finally, another
major point source for CO2 will face some real economic incentives to clean up their
damn-the-future ways.