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#LondonCalling: The EPA's bleak future, 2040 @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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#LondonCalling: The EPA's bleak future, 2040 @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-worries-that-america-is-fighting-climate-change-too-much-inflation-reduction-act-subsidy-emissions-european-commission-germany-uk-cd922a02

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0:00.0

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0:27.3

companies who currently publicly report these statistics.

0:29.5

This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Batsow, a Joseph Sternberg member of the editorial

0:40.2

board of the Wall Street Journal. He's based in London. And we come from London to Washington.

0:46.5

In these last days, the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency has advanced

0:51.6

to plan. A plan between now and 2040. There are details that are not provided. There

0:57.6

is a larger story here that is described in the headlines. I'll go to Bloomberg.

1:04.0

Biden plans to slash planet warming pollution from power plants. Subhead. EPA limits would

1:10.8

stamp out most electric sector emissions. Subhead, measure would accelerate renewable power,

1:18.2

carbon capture. There are many details to add, but this is about ending my understanding.

1:25.8

Coal and gas fired power plants in the United States with the utopian confidence that the

1:33.7

renewables can be switched into the power grid that we know we will need going forward

1:40.2

to 2040 and afterward. Joe, this reads like a campaign document and good for the campaign

1:47.6

because the president has announced his reelection plan, satisfying the members of his party

1:53.7

and those who supported him, the independence about green power renewables and ending the

2:01.8

fossil fuel industry. But at the same time, it's a puzzle toe how we're going to do that.

2:08.2

And so how do you measure this, these statements about ending energy as we understand it?

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