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Only seven coal plants nationwide emitted more heat-trapping carbon dioxide last year than the 12.4 million tons released into the atmosphere by the Prairie State Generating Station. If regulations unveiled Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency survive political and legal challenges, Prairie State’s owners will soon face a critical decision: Either shut down the coal burner or upgrade it with carbon capture and storage technology that has yet to be utilized at the scale necessary for the country’s largest power plants.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The heat trapping is yet to be proven but the opposite has.
https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Fulltext/2022/02000/World_Atmospheric_CO2,_Its_14C_Specific_Activity,.2.aspx
Oh good … more Illinois people to lose jobs
Energy shortage this winter — use Democrats for firewood
More electricity removed from the power grid, BRILLIANT!
A young girl wearing her thick eyeglasses and doing her homework in a dingy candle lit room asks her mom, “Mommy what did we use before candles?” The climate change, green energy supporting mother smiles and says, “We had this stuff called electricity, but it was bad”.