Obama comes through on campaign pledge: Nobody will build coal plants now

摘要

President Barack Obama appears to be living up to his words of 2008: If a rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency March 27 goes into effect nobody will be able to build new coal-fired plants.Gas plants? They're fantastic (for now). Coal plants? In the words of Tony Soprano fuggedaboutit.So along with MATS and CSAPR and water conductivity at coal mines and permits that are there today and gone tomorrow the Obama administration has now proposed standards for carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants that are welcome news to gas producers and would kick coal producers in the teeth.