the death of coal?

Quote: petroglyph

Lucky they didn't tear down their coal fired plants.

Quote: Statement by President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Ruling on West Virginia v. EPA

JUNE 30, 2022

The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA is another devastating decision that aims to take our country backwards. While this decision risks damaging our nation’s ability to keep our air clean and combat climate change, I will not relent in using my lawful authorities to protect public health and tackle the climate crisis.

I have directed my legal team to work with the Department of Justice and affected agencies to review this decision carefully and find ways that we can, under federal law, continue protecting Americans from harmful pollution, including pollution that causes climate change.

Since the Clean Air Act was passed by a bipartisan majority in Congress in 1970, the landmark law has enabled both Democratic and Republican administrations to protect and improve the air we breathe, cutting air pollution by 78 percent even as our economy quadrupled in size. Yet today’s decision sides with special interests that have waged a long-term campaign to strip away our right to breathe clean air.

We cannot and will not ignore the danger to public health and existential threat the climate crisis poses. The science confirms what we all see with our own eyes – the wildfires, droughts, extreme heat, and intense storms are endangering our lives and livelihoods.

I will take action. My Administration will continue using lawful executive authority, including the EPA’s legally-upheld authorities, to keep our air clean, protect public health, and tackle the climate crisis. We will work with states and cities to pass and uphold laws that protect their citizens. And we will keep pushing for additional Congressional action, so that Americans can fully seize the economic opportunities, cost-saving benefits, and security of a clean energy future. Together, we will tackle environmental injustice, create good-paying jobs, and lower costs for families building the clean energy economy.

Our fight against climate change must carry forward, and it will.

Quote: Pacomartin

Since the Clean Air Act was passed by a bipartisan majority in Congress in 1970, the landmark law has enabled both Democratic and Republican administrations to protect and improve the air we breathe, cutting air pollution by 78 percent even as our economy quadrupled in size. Yet today’s decision sides with special interests that have waged a long-term campaign to strip away our right to breathe clean air.

Quote: Pacomartin

President is none to happy with SCOTUS these days.

Quote: missedhervee

Sure, the air got cleaner but the backbone of the USA got much weaker and we are now dependent on foreign powers for much of our heavy industries and manufacturing.

Eliminating most smokestack industries such as steel making shifted the source of said products offshore.

It didn't end the pollution as it is now in those countries and slowly spreads across the world.

Time for a change: loosen the regs, bring back steel, and just suck it up: like em or not, we NEED dirty industries .

Either that of let China et al continue to set the tune .

Let's stop being a service economy and get back to a land of heavy industry.

Quote: missedhervee

The problem is that it is typically not US industries cannot compete with off-shore industries as they can make the same product for less due to cheaper labor costs and looser gov't control.

But yeah, think of all the good jobs we'd have again if industry flourished once more.

Kind of brings a tear to my eye.