This is the 528th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) usually appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Here is the Sept. 27 Green Spotlight. More than 27,925 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.
OUTSTANDING GREEN STORIES
ExpatGirl writes—"People Are Dying Here." Trump Golfs While Puerto Rico Dies. ”’People are dying here.’ — San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. After a week of tweeting about the NFL, Trump is going golfing this weekend. Meanwhile, PUERTO RICO IS DYING. The US Congress has done nothing. The MSM has dropped the ball as well. We. Have. To. Keep. Screaming. Please, DKos community, don’t let up.”
ClimateDenierRoundup writes—What Might Pruitt’s Clean Power Plan Replacement Look Like? A Traditional Liberal Policy, Actually: “On Monday, the Trump administration will announce a new regulatory agenda. Coincidentally, next Saturday, October 7th, is a deadline for the EPA to provide details on what it’s doing with the Clean Power Plan (CPP). [...] But what might that replacement plan look like? As it turns out, we have some clues. While Pruitt has been hesitant (at best) to engage with mainstream media, he has done plenty of interviews with conservative outlets. [...] In one interview with the Washington Examiner from last week, Pruitt suggests that those wondering about what’s to come with the CPP “take a look at the Oklahoma plan” he released in 2014 as an alternative to other state’s thinking on how to meet climate goals. With considerable prescience, the NYTimes posted this plan earlier this year, so if you want all the details, here they are. With the CPP, the EPA set science-based emission goals for states and let them figure out how best to meet that goal. By contrast, Pruitt’s Oklahoma plan would have each state doing only that which is convenient for the power plants, asking for efficiency upgrades based on their boiler design, coal type, plant age and other factors. So instead of the CPP’s free market-based mechanism which would allow for states to meet emission reduction goals by transitioning to clean, cheap renewables and away from dirty old coal, Pruitt’s plan is actually more in the vein of traditional liberal command and control regulations that create define specific actions that should or should not be taken for each individual polluter.”
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2kqN4qC
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