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Dale Curry
More great planning by the Public Utility Commission?
Rudy Gonzales
A federal appeals court upheld the rulings of the EPA that heat trapping gasses from industry and automobiles endanger public health, further that the Clean Air Act requires the federal government to impose limits once it has determined emissions are causing harm.
Fourteen states, led by Virginia and Texas, had sued to block the rules. Fifteen states, including New York, California and Massachusetts, went to court to support the agency. Massachusetts and California were among the states that won a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2007, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, that led to the agency’s endangerment finding. The attorney general of Virginia said he would appeal Tuesday’s ruling.
The politics of carbon dioxide regulation have grown more partisan over the years. When Massachusetts first brought the case that led to the landmark Supreme Court decision, its governor was Mitt Romney. As the presumptive Republican nominee for president, he has since backed away from his earlier position that human-caused global warming is under way.
Rudy Gonzales
Texas' electrical power grid is based on natural gas prices. The Conservative "Deer in the head lights" governor and the gross failure of ERCOT to allow the building of coal powered units, smacks of partisan politics on steroids. There has been a steady decline in the quality of representation for the people of Texas in Austin from the current "conservatives" in office.
con·serv·a·tive? ?[kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv]-
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Say it with me. Existing conditions mean nothing will change under the conservative banner and things will continue to erode into oblivion under this mantra.
Throwing money into Austin will not fix the problems de-regulation was supposed to have fixed and allowing coal fired production plants to be built without regard to down-wind states or federal EPA compliance is just plain confrontational. Change must be made to the Legislature and the governor's office to effect real representation for the people in Texas.
Over and above this issue is today's federal appeals court upholding the rulings of the EPA that heat trapping gasses from industry and automobiles endanger public health, further that the Clean Air Act requires the federal government to impose limits once it has determined emissions are causing harm.
Fourteen states, led by Virginia and Texas, had sued to block the rules. Fifteen states, including New York, California and Massachusetts, went to court to support the agency. Massachusetts and California were among the states that won a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2007, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, that led to the agency’s endangerment finding. The attorney general of Virginia said he would appeal Tuesday’s ruling.
The politics of carbon dioxide regulation have grown more partisan over the years. When Massachusetts first brought the case that led to the landmark Supreme Court decision, its governor was Mitt Romney. As the presumptive Republican nominee for president, he has since backed away from his earlier position that human-caused global warming is under way.
John Clemens
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Elmo
Rusy you are clueless my friend. There has not been one coal plant shut down or denied by anyone. This is beauxe of deregualtion by Sibley. Plain and simple. We were promised this would not happen when this passed but it has.Sibley went to lobby for the people who benefited from this passage and he took home a ton of money. Meanwhile gas fired plants sit idele all over Texas
Another 99%
Everyone can demonize him or her, them or us, or the Texas govt. or the Fed Govt., but only one way to avoid and control the situation is......... stop and control populations, period
All solutions are just wasted money, and ruined lives. Stop the influx of people or...........