EPA Rejects Bush Administration Position on Coal Emissions
Articles — By forcechange on February 18, 2009 10:52 am
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said on Tuesday that the agency would reconsider regulating CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants, in opposition to the previous administration’s position laid out by former Administrator Stephen Johnson in December.
Jackson noted that the Bush Administration’s position is not “the final word on the appropriate interpretation of the Clean Air Act,” but she stopped short of issuing a stay of former Administrator Johnson’s memorandum. Jackson’s position brings the Obama Administration’s position closer to that expressed by the EPA Appeals Board in November, which held that the permitting process for new coal plants must consider the use of “best available controls” by that plant to limit CO2 emissions.
Environmental groups are optimistic that this is the first step towards implementing an emissions regime for coal-fired plants. Already, many coal energy projects have been put on hold over fears that impending regulations could make these projects unfeasible since carbon sequestration techniques are extremely expensive and unproven.
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Here are two out-of-the box solutions to CO2 emmissions from coal factories producing near, clean coal!
Since large forrests are responsible for removing large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere daily, and releasing somewhat equal amounts of 02 at night, why wouldnt it be feasible to place coal generationg plats in the midst of such forrest taking proper precautions accepted?
Second: Channel the coal emmissions from the factories into the well known mixtures, which when combined with the CO2 from the coal factories produces limestone which can be put to better uses.