Download e-book for kindle: Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the "War on Coal" by Richard Revesz,Jack Lienke

By Richard Revesz,Jack Lienke

ISBN-10: 0190233117

ISBN-13: 9780190233112

because the starting of the Obama management, conservative politicians have railed opposed to the President's "War on Coal." As facts of this meant siege, they aspect to a sequence of ideas issued through the Environmental security supplier that goal to diminish pollution from the nation's energy region . simply because coal produces way more pollutants than the other significant strength resource, those ideas are anticipated to extra lessen its already shrinking percentage of the electrical energy marketplace in prefer of purifier suggestions like typical fuel and solar energy. however the EPA's guidelines are hardly ever the "unprecedented regulatory attack " that rivals cause them to out to be. as a substitute, they're basically the newest bankruptcy in a multi-decade fight to beat a sad flaw in our nation's most vital environmental law.

In 1970, Congress handed the fresh Air Act, which had the remarkably bold aim of doing away with primarily all pollution that posed a possibility to public healthiness or welfare. yet there has been an issue: for essentially the most universal toxins, Congress empowered the EPA to set emission limits just for newly built business amenities, so much significantly energy crops. present vegetation, against this, will be mostly exempt from direct federal regulation-a regulatory perform often called "grandfathering." What lawmakers did not expect was once that implementing expensive specifications on new crops whereas giving present ones a go might easily motivate these outdated crops to stick in company for much longer than initially deliberate. considering that 1970, the center difficulties of U.S. environmental coverage have flowed inexorably from the smokestacks of those coal-fired clunkers, which proceed to pollute at some distance better premiums than their more youthful peers.

In suffering for Air, Richard L. Revesz and Jack Lienke chronicle the political compromises that gave upward thrust to grandfathering, its lethal outcomes, and the repeated attempts-by presidential administrations of either parties-to make issues right.

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