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Opposition to coal-fired plant growing
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America has to stop basing decisions based on emotion and listening to every dissenting voice out there, and just go do what is best for this country's needs. We need electricity badly, and coal and nuclear plants are the only realistic solution. New coal plants are much cleaner than most people know--they're not your grandfather's plants.
And before you talk about CO2, first prove to me it is a major factor in climate change. If you can't do that, why are you worried about it?
A close analog like the Moapa coal-fired plant is as close to proof as you can get.
In the sense that evidence adds up to support a particular idea, science is all about "proof" in the colloquial sense. Some ideas really are proven, while others have not yet been and others cannot be. What we really look for is contrary evidence, and in its absence we have confidence in an idea. By the way, it's easy to prove that the Holocaust happened. It's well documented with photographic and eyewitness evidence, with no contrary evidence.
NEVCO's permit here in Sevier county has been challenged and UPHELD twice now and people still keep trying to challenge it. But...our county is doing the right thing and the planning commission just gave them final approval. I suspect the commissioners will do the same thing over the next few months as well.
Bottom line....you gotta put the emotions away and trust the people that are a little smarter than you.
The EPA has been steadily relaxing their clean air standards by order of the executive, so I wouldn't hold my breath hoping that they will protect you.
The real answers are energy conservation by consumers, and development of clean, renewable electrical generating facilities by providers. Fossil fuels are dinosaurs.
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