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Posted by DeepLogin 1 day ago

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution(text.hrw.org)
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mathh 1 day ago|
This is deeply outrageous and criminal. Every American should be ashamed.
csto12 1 day ago|
I mean we elected an outrageous criminal into office. I think we are in a post-shame society.
bamboozled 1 day ago||
How “conservative”, revolting people.
ck2 1 day ago||
well, for the next 800 days

or can a dictator president do this at all without congress?

btw how many gallons of crude oil do you think the Epstein Memorial Ballroom can hold?

because we're going to need a new strategic oil reserve, he destroyed the current system by bottoming it out

yongjik 1 day ago||
The real irony is that, despite all this, Trump may accidentally become the greenest US president by driving up the price of oil for the whole world. For years to come.

I mean, anyone can say they're for the environment, but are you willing to start a war, lose a midterm, and murder a school full of kids to reduce your carbon footprint? /s

zaik 1 day ago|
He should be awarded the FIFA Environment Protection prize.
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tifik 1 day ago|
I think it will be downvoted for being unnecessarily inflamatory.
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nxm 1 day ago|
Nothing like trying to be the tough guy on an message board....
Hikikomori 1 day ago||
Feeling called out huh
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bethekidyouwant 1 day ago|
The 2024 standards required existing coal plants and new gas plants to capture 90 percent of carbon emissions or shut down by 2039.

- wow 2039. So this already had no teeth. We can just pass this law again in 2029.

SomeHacker44 1 day ago||
Not a law. A regulation. If it were a law, it would have required Congress to change. Not that that would likely have stopped this administration.
fakedang 1 day ago||
That's because the technology is already there, if plants were willing to run at a bit of a higher OpEx and add some CapEx. Amine scrubbing coupled with decades-old technology like Rotary Packed Beds Reactors can already capture 90% of CO2 at minimum. The UAE's Ruwais facility already does this onsite and uses the captured CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery (aka fracking for the last bits of oil in wells). This has the benefit of sequestering CO2 while also not using water for fracking as an option.
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