The US administration is continuing to support fossil fuels to the overwhelming detriment of society.
The recent interventions into state policies by the administration to keep coal burning plants open past their scheduled close dates is harmful and dangerous.
It is an example of how this administration is antagonising the health of our people and the cleanliness of our environment by effectively increasing air pollution and ground pollution mainly through rain by reopening inefficient, dangerous, harmful and thereto closed and retired coal-burning state plants.
Unlike other fossil fuels or renewables, coal pumps harmful and deadly emissions, including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin, and other heavy metals into the lower atmosphere where it causes proven and untold harm and suffering to people, according to the NYTimesApp.
Soil and water quality are also significantly affected as the poisons filter into our ecosystems.
The administration’s interventions are legally debatable as these state coal-burning plants and their experts have scheduled closings based on the present safety and efficiency of the coal burning plants.
Many plants have been closed but then the feds have opened them up again three-months at a time in most cases.
But the administration is not only bent on preventing the decline of coal but more importantly revitalising coal which also is the largest fossil-fuel pollutant per capita.
The administration egregiously and erroneously calls coal “pure and clean.”
Plants in Michigan, Indiana and Colorado have all been scheduled to close until the administration intervened to extend them in some cases by three-month intervals at a time.
The plants are dangerous to run under these conditions and emit more dangerous and harmful emissions into our air, soil and water.
A test suit filed on behalf of a state party by a national NGO should come from one state regarding a pending plant closure before the administration has extended the life of the plant by three months.
The state party would challenge the fed’s action in court with the help of a non-profit law group specialising in nationwide environmental litigation, e.g., Earth Justice.
The precedent would prevent the administration from intervening in states’ rights and close dangerous and harmful coal-mining technology practices nationwide based on comprehensive factual states’ assessments of the ageing coal-burning plants.
However, in conclusion, coal and gas especially are not economically viable fossil fuels in a true and comprehensive accounting of all their costs to our environment and especially the health of our people.
Solar and wind et al are far more viable, plentiful and clean sources of energy for our new economy.
Coal needs to be nefariously propped injudiciously and inequitably to exist as fuel, according to Earth Justice.