Environmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions
It’s a good time to be a coal plant in the US. The Trump administration has given support to almost half of the nation’s coal plants, helping them to continue operating despite economic and regulatory headwinds, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund.
The analysis, which looked at the 184 operating coal plants that are connected to the grid, found that 90 received support from the Trump administration through “cash handouts, free passes to pollute, and requirements to stay online past their retirement dates”.
The administration provided $950m in taxpayer dollars to 24 coal plants and handed Clean Air Act exemptions from toxic pollution limits to 70 coal plants, according to the EDF analysis.
“It’s extending the life of these coal plants,” said Surbhi Sarang, director and senior attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund. “The administration has leveraged a multitude of tools to prop up coal plants, and ultimately all of that is harming Americans even more by increasing electricity costs, by increasing pollution – it’s like Americans are getting hit twice.”
Midterm will reverse the last 10 years of bipartisan destruction
Boy, are you in for a reality check. Yeah, there will be significant inroads made by progressives, but it’s barely more than a step in the right direction. To achieve what you’ve described is gonna take a metric fuckton more work to accomplish.
Sorry I thought my sarcasm was coated on that like shellack. The USA is dead. Anyone in it better buckle up for 70 years of backsliding.
It’s pretty fucked, but I wouldn’t go so far as “dead.” But you’re definitely right in that we’re gonna have a long, hard slog ahead of us to (somewhat) right the ship again. Things will certainly get worse before they get better.
(I didn’t vote either way on your comment, just to let you know.)
Youre talking to a week old midterm bot that thrives on seemingly loving loads of negativity. They may as well be the bottom-feeders of global society at this point.
It’s going to take a lot longer than that, unfortunately. This election is a start, not the finish. We need to keep voting for progress, continuously, for the next few decades.
And then maybe, just maybe, the USA can get back to 2015, in 70 years.
We need to keep voting for progress, continuously, for the next few decades.
How are you voting for progress when you usually only are given the choice between fast or slow regression… standstill on an exceptionally good day at best.