Word: coal
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...long list of things that keep coal-industry executives awake at night is the possibility that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Now it seems that nightmare is at hand...
...administrator Lisa Jackson announced that the agency would reconsider a Bush Administration decision not to regulate CO2 emissions from new coal power plants. The next day, she backed up that statement by telling the New York Times she was considering acting on an April 2007 Supreme Court decision that empowers the EPA to regulate CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. If the EPA exercises that authority as expected - a process that would likely play out over months - it could potentially put in place one of the farthest-reaching regulations in U.S. history, affecting...
...reality, observers say the EPA is unlikely to pursue small emitters in any carbon regulation, instead focusing on reining in big sources like power plants and automobiles, which together are responsible for some 60% of U.S. carbon emissions. Such action could have momentous consequences for the scores of new coal power plants that have been proposed across the U.S., an expansion that environmentalists are dead set against...
...billion trade deficit with China as of November 2008) and because the U.S. is dependent on China to fund its $10.7 trillion debt, economics bind us indissolubly together. But we are also connected in one other way. Both the U.S. and China are rich in coal as an energy source and collectively produce upwards of 50% of the world's annual emission of greenhouse gases. Unless the two nations can find a way to collaborate in confronting the challenge of climate change, there can be no global solution to it. Why? Because a molecule of carbon dioxide emitted in Beijing...
...children. Dolores Huerta, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America—although delicate in appearance—exudes the calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts it, a “testament to the power each one of us possesses to make a positive difference.” Her acceptance of the Reverend Professor...