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US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

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  1. reactordev · · focus · HN ↗
    Full steam ahead towards greenhouse gases, climate change, and +5degree temperatures. Why not?
    1. jeroenhd · · focus · HN ↗
      The USA is already holding the record for greenhouse gas pollution per capita and they elected the lunatic that raved about climate change being a hoax. I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier.

      The fact these regulations didn't make it through the normal law making progress (senate/house) doomed it before it even took shape. With presidents like Trump undoing everything his predecessor(s) did just to feel powerful, legislation like this is doomed from that start.

      1. rightnutwingjob · · focus · HN ↗
        There’s no denying Climate Change is a big industrial-complex.

        And now that the Data Centre Industrial Complex has come along it’s somewhat sidelined the Climate Change Industrial Complex*.

        Funny how that happens.

        1. pjc50 · · focus · HN ↗
          Well yes, every piece of industry ends up contributing to climate change, but data centers are the one that's having a massive expansion in the west.
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