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In a bald attempt to defend coal industry profits, Rep. Earl Pomeroy This action could result in significantly raising local energy prices and endanger the 28,000 direct and indirect jobs Pomeroy’s claim that “regulations to address global climate change <\/p>\n This is nothing new. North Dakota’s coal industry successfully blocked the state legislature<\/a> from taking action on global warming pollution in 1995, by noting that <\/p>\n North Dakota’s allegiance to coal has delivered low-price <\/p>\n North Dakota’s climate<\/a> is beginning to spiral out of control<\/a>. Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bring back Van Jones<\/a><\/p>\n My whiz-bang light rail is your pain in the asphalt<\/a><\/p>\n
(D-N.D.) has joined a predominantly Republican push to overrule the
Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding that greenhouse
gases are dangerous pollutants. Earlier this month, Pomeroy introduced
the Save Our Energy Jobs Act (H.R. 4396<\/a>),
which would rewrite the Clean Air Act so that “[t]he term ‘air
pollutant’ shall not include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.”
Pomeroy’s justification for flouting the reality of the global warming
threat is the need to defend the coal, oil, and gas industries<\/a>:<\/p>\n
that are connected to North Dakota’s coal industry, not to mention
thousands of jobs connected to our manufacturing and expanding oil and
gas industries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
must only be enacted at the direction of Congress” is specious,
considering that he voted against<\/a> the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, which did exactly that.<\/p>\n
it would make wind power more cost-effective than coal. Sen. Byron
Dorgan (D-N.D.), while extolling North Dakota’s wind power potential, has
decided to side with coal<\/a> when it comes to actual climate policy decisions, though he has not
taken the extreme step of embracing Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska)
resolution to overturn the greenhouse gas endangerment finding, as
Democrats Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), and Blanche
Lincoln (D-Ark.) have.<\/p>\n
electricity, but at great cost. North Dakota’s largest coal-fired power
plant, the Great River Energy Coal Creek Station, is one of the
nation’s most polluting plants<\/a>, spewing over 800 pounds of mercury, 24,000 tons<\/a> of sulfur dioxide, four million pounds<\/a> of coal waste, and a staggering 10 million tons<\/a> of carbon dioxide every year.<\/p>\n
In the last twenty years, Red River floods expected to occur at Fargo
only once every 10 years have happened every two to three years.
2009’s unprecedented flooding made it the third year in a row<\/a> with at least a “ten-year flood.” Pomeroy has two children—whose
future he is putting at grave risk, all for the sake of donors like
American Crystal Sugar ($99,025<\/a>), whose facilities rely on coal<\/a> plants<\/a>, and the electric utilities who have given him $210,860<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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