From: John Fernbach Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 6:11 PM Subject: [Global Change: 2738] Re: Climate MAYDAY - Emergency -- As "Coal to Liquid Fuel" Backers Move to Push for Production Simultaneously in China, India and the USA
>>When CO2 emission reduction becomes >>the law of the land, the to-liquid industry coal-will have to comply. >Having worked a little as a journalist on an industry compliance manual, >trying to track >EPA's enforcement of one fairly obscure anti-pollution >law, I'd say that mobilizing to >stop the industry in its tracks before >it's developed would provide a much better chance >of controlling its CO2 >emissions than attempting to regulate it afterwards. How do you stop the industry in its tracks if not by enacting a law to ban it? Would you consider a partial ban, allowing development on condition that CCS be implemented (similar to Rep. Boucher's bill cited above?) And does your skepticism about air pollution regulation prevent you from supporting all efforts to enact laws that regulate CO2 emissions, or will nothing short of a ban on coal satisfy you? I would expect CO2 emission laws to be roughly as successful as the CAA has been on limiting NOx and SOx emissions, and therefore worth a try. http://cfpub.epa.gov/compliance/resources/reports/accomplishment/details.cfm -dl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
