Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Proposed Utah coal plant blocked by EPA panel

WASHINGTON -- The feds have been blocked from issuing a permit for a coal burning power plant proposed in Utah. The reason is that it failed to adequately address possible controls on carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas [not even close: water vapor is >96% of all 'green house gases']

The ruling Thursday comes from an Environmental Protection Agency appeals panel. Environmentalists say the ruling probably will affect other coal plant permit cases.

[national suicide: coal is this nation's primary (non-mobile) energy source - primary: more than all other sources combined {55%}]

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