E.P.A. to Seek 30 Percent Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030

[telemann.livejournal.com]

New York Times: Unveiling New Carbon Plan, E.P.A. Focuses on Flexibility

The Obama administration on Monday announced one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan.

The regulation takes aim at the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, the nation’s more than 600 coal-fired power plants. If it withstands an expected onslaught of legal and legislative attacks, experts say that it could close hundreds of the plants and also lead, over the course of decades, to systemic changes in the American electricity industry, including transformations in how power is generated and used.

Comments

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Venus is fascinating. Ray Bradbury had early sci-fi stories about it being a planet of endless rain when in truth, it's a place right out of Dante's Inferno.

In any case, it seems only logical to utilize a power source as abundant as the sun.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Venus if it had water on its surface:

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is some mountain range.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

The surface would look different I think, if Venus had plate tectonic movement. But you need water for that process to occur. So this is a representation of a locked surface, not one that would have moved around had water been present.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

I love the old Venus and Mars stories, before we really understood just how inhospitable those two worlds actually were.

Zelazny started writing right about the time when it was becoming late to write those sorts of tales (because popular perception of those worlds was changing to match scientific discovery,) but he went ahead and quickly wrote "The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" and "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" for Venus and Mars, respectively. He figured: "I need to write these now, before it's TOO late."

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Bradbury's Martian Chronicles were wonderful.

[cursethedark.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading the hardbound Bradbury collection from B&N, which includes Martian Chronicles. So many amazing stories.