4 thoughts on “We Don’t Need No Clean Electric, We Don’t Need No Smog Control”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan — the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change — and plans to solicit input on a rule to replace it, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters.
The new rule: there ARE NO RULES! Get rid of those stack scrubbers, and maybe the stacks themselves! Burn that coal until the forests are all dead from acid rain! Remember: people¹ who die of emphysema before age 65 don't go on Medicare or draw Soshecurity! Win-win!
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¹like my father
My father was an engineer/construction manager with the electric company in Chicago, and spent most days of his working life at coal-fired power plants that were being expanded with new boiler-generator units. He used to take me with sometimes when he went in on Saturdays, and one of those days we walked down the long, sloped structure that contained a conveyor belt carrying coal from the car dumper to the coal-feed for the boiler. The air was thick with Illinois soft coal dust.
Of course he also smoked most of his life and had had bad asthma as a child.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan — the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change — and plans to solicit input on a rule to replace it, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters.
The new rule: there ARE NO RULES! Get rid of those stack scrubbers, and maybe the stacks themselves! Burn that coal until the forests are all dead from acid rain! Remember: people¹ who die of emphysema before age 65 don't go on Medicare or draw Soshecurity! Win-win!
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¹like my father
Time to invest in face masks and oxygen bars, I guess. Fuck.
My father was an engineer/construction manager with the electric company in Chicago, and spent most days of his working life at coal-fired power plants that were being expanded with new boiler-generator units. He used to take me with sometimes when he went in on Saturdays, and one of those days we walked down the long, sloped structure that contained a conveyor belt carrying coal from the car dumper to the coal-feed for the boiler. The air was thick with Illinois soft coal dust.
Of course he also smoked most of his life and had had bad asthma as a child.
[Obligatory, then.]