SpeshilEdjukashin: Higher electric bills! Thanks Obama, just what I've always wanted!

Fark! Why you no have "troll" button?

Thank you. Now, kill that pipeline and we'll be even happier.

Shuh-weet! I had no idea this was going on.

How dare Obama tell companies that they can't pollute the air with mercury and other neurotoxins. We're living in a dictatorship! Do you really want the government telling you what you can and can't do, running every little facet of your lives?

Why should we, the taxpayers, foot the bill for something that corporations have every right to do? This kind of authoritarian nanny-state babying wouldn't happen in a libertarian society.

That's great news! It's about time these grandfathered plants actually come up to code from the 1970s.

I've been informed by RON PAUL that these environmental issues can be solved with property rights, so I see no need for this legislation.

Walker: The fact that Texas has the most mercury pollution explains a lot.

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They got mur.. uh. merk... uh... merk-me-ree uh mer uh. stuff in the air there.

I'm not sure where they came up with 540,000 asthma or 24,000 ER visits other than the out of the butt make up a number calculation department.

But $33/person to reduce mercury doesn't sound like a bad thing.

Can't say anything anymore. Someone would call me a racist for calling Obama a tree-hugger.

What if it's a mercury-free puppy?

Alleyoop: Can't say anything anymore. Someone would call me a racist for calling Obama a tree-hugger.

Instead I'll just call you stupid for not wanting your descendants to breath cleaner air.

But mountains can still have their tops blown off into the valleys to easily get at the coal, right?

/States Rights rule and the President is just a token position for other countries to have someone to talk too at 3am.

vartian: SpeshilEdjukashin
Higher electric bills! Thanks Obama, just what I've always wanted!

http://R.A.Danny/
More job killing regulation. This guy hates America.

fark progress, or health, if I have to spend one damn cent of my own money to do it.

The rest of the world has grown tired with your antics. We are going to go ahead and do that things that need to be done. Feel free to hurl insults from the late fifties at us while we do so.

someone doesn't have a sense of humor here.

SpeshilEdjukashin: Higher electric bills! Thanks Obama, just what I've always wanted!

And Poe's Law strikes again.

TheGreatGazoo: I'm not sure where they came up with 540,000 asthma or 24,000 ER visits other than the out of the butt make up a number calculation department.

But $33/person to reduce mercury doesn't sound like a bad thing.

That's not how regulations work. It will affect those who live near the plants that need upgrading for the most part. Most power plants already meet the desired levels.

b..but won't that cost jobs and interfere with our killing the host planet?

Pussy?

Man On Fire: Alleyoop: Can't say anything anymore. Someone would call me a racist for calling Obama a tree-hugger.

Instead I'll just call you stupid for not wanting your descendants to breath cleaner air.

Prevent birth defects and learning disabilities? Why this is nothing but a blatant attempt at eliminating the GOP base!

Cybernetic: "In the AP's survey," she writes, "not a single plant operator said the EPA rules were solely to blame for a closure, although some said it left them with no other choice."

The cognitive dissonance in this statement is stunning, but not surprising coming from MoJo.

There's no cognitive dissonance if you acknowledge that "solely" is the key word in that statement.

CougarJeff: SpeshilEdjukashin: Higher electric bills! Thanks Obama, just what I've always wanted!

Fark! Why you no have "troll" button?

They do, it's the one on the far right of the control bar. See it? Looks like a circle with a diagonal line?

Walker: The fact that Texas has the most mercury pollution explains a lot.

Not defending Texas air pollution, I live here and its pretty bad. But I would like to see that chart in mercury per kilowatt hour and not just total. I imagine the chart would look drastically different.

but not cleaner than a CFL bulb.

of course, that is another payback for GE.

Man On Fire: Instead I'll just call you stupid for not wanting your descendants to breath cleaner air.

Obama fanbois are lying in wait with their rapier wit tonight.

The Angry Hand of God: Man On Fire: Alleyoop: Can't say anything anymore. Someone would call me a racist for calling Obama a tree-hugger.

Instead I'll just call you stupid for not wanting your descendants to breath cleaner air.

Stop discriminating against the childless!

Its impossible to know what effect, if any effect, this rule will have on tbe mercury content in the fish we eat.
One thing it may accomplish is to increase energy costs, which will, in turn, favor investment in alternative energy.

I guess it shows either that O has guts or that he thinks hes a one -termer,because this is likely to be bad for economic growth in the election year.

Walker: The fact that Texas has the most mercury pollution explains a lot.

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THIS.



WTF, Texas? Are you guys competing with China over who's the biggest air polluter?

I like how bumfark-nowhere North Dakota puts out and order of magnitude more than California. It must require a lot of coal to keep those seven people warm during the winter.

What about industry's constitutionally guaranteed right to poison us all for profit?

Yay! Higher natural gas prices!

Ahhh, mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals.