EPA to review Bush administration rule on emissions at coal-fired power plants

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Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: EPA to review Bush administration rule on emissions at coal-fired power plants

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EPA to review Bush rule on warming emissions
Environmental groups expect curbs on coal-fired power plants

The Obama administration on Tuesday agreed to review whether it should regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, portending a major reversal of the Bush administration's policy on global warming.

The Environmental Protection Agency granted a petition from environmental groups seeking to overturn a rule that sought to prohibit controls on these emissions.

"This decision stops the Bush administration's final, last-minute effort to saddle President Obama with its do-nothing policy on global warming," Sierra Club lawyer David Bookbinder said in a statement.
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"With coal-fired power plants emitting more than 30 percent of our global warming pollution, regulating their carbon dioxide is essential to making real progress in the fight against global warming," he added.

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1. Does the Sierra Club lawyer understand the issue?

The emissions we can control NOW are mercury, sulfur dioxides and PARTICULATES. CO2 sequestration was never part of the package as it is, for the foreseeable future, too damn expensive and difficult to implement.

Plant a tree numbnuts.