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U.S. coal industry workers and coal-states elected officials are set to rally Tuesday morning near the Capitol to protest against federal environmental policies that they believe have hurt jobs.
The “Count on Coal” demonstration, according to The Washington Times, is expected to draw thousands of coal miners, their families and other energy industry workers from several states.
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposed new rules limiting carbon emissions from new coal-fired power plants and is currently taking public comments on those possible regulations.
Emissions regulations for existing coal-fired power plants will be released next summer.
The EPA’s proposals have hefty legislative hurdles to overcome before becoming law.
The rally on Capitol Hill will include speeches from coal-state members of Congress, such as Democrats Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Sen. Mark R. Warner of Virginia. Republican Mitch McConnell, who represents the major coal-producing state of Kentucky, is also scheduled to speak tomorrow.
According to figures from the National Mining Association (NMA), about 40% of the U.S’s electricity comes from coal-generated power plants.
The country’s coal industry has been struggling as of late. Total production is on track to fall to a 20-year low of a little more than 1 billion tons this year. And the lack of interest from investors is more evident than ever before. As a prove, the government held an auction for mining rights to a hot, coal-rich tract of land in Wyoming in August, and didn’t attract a single bid.
Despite Obama’s administration efforts to reduce carbon emissions, a recent report says that King Coal should continue to reign for years, as it is set to overtake oil as the world’s main source of energy by 2020.
Image courtesy of CountonCoal.org.
2 Comments
B.
Great!
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bob ashworth
CO2 and all other gases cool our planet, they don’t warm it. Why, because any mass between you and a radiant energy source like our sun will reflect some of the radiant energy back to space. CFC destruction of ozone in our stratosphere did cause the earth to warm some 0.6C from 1966 to 2002 but the Montreal Protocol that banned production of CFCs is correcting that problem, the ozone in the stratosphere is increasing slightly now so warming stopped and slight cooling has been taking place since 2002. It will take until about 2100 until the stratospheric ozone gets back to normal.
CO2 causing warming is a complete fraud, promoted by those in power to make money for themselves at the expense of the common people in the world. Shameful and criminal. See my paper on the Man-made CO2 Global Warming Fraud! at http://www.energycentral.com/generationstorage/environmentalemissionsandcarbonmanagement/articles/2563/The-Man-made-CO-sub-2-sub-Global-Warming-Fraud-