via Karl Denninger:
I know, you won’t read this if you’re even slightly-leftward because…. it’s Fox.
Louisiana environmentalists and locals are growing increasingly concerned about certain carbon capture projects supported by President Biden’s climate initiative, as nearby Black communities grapple with already elevated cancer risks from existing chemical plants.
The EPA was never intended to be able to regulate carbon in any form. CO2 is not a “pollutant”; it is plant food.
It is also the inevitable emission generated by every living animal on Earth. It thus cannot be a “pollutant.”
The Supreme Court dealt the EPA a fatal blow to regulating carbon in 2022. Congress explicitly removed that constraint, which it has the right to do, immediately thereafter in the “Inflation Reduction Act” where the specific capacity to regulate any “greenhouse gas”, including CO2, was stated unambiguously and intentionally.
Carbon is, I remind you, the entire basis of western society and our economy.
I don’t care if you like this or not; it is fact. Thermodynamics is not the “book of suggestions” and there is no alternative that works on a planet in which all life is carbon based and all energy transformed by said life ultimately traces to carbon.
We are all carbon-based life forms. So is the tree in your yard, your cat, dog, the mosquito that bites you, the bee that pollinates your flowers and the crops you rely on to live, and so on. By mass carbon is the second largest contributor to a plant or animal by mass; only oxygen is greater (and that, almost-exclusively, is due to water content.)
YOU ARE NOT A POLLUTANT AND NEITHER ARE THE THINGS YOU EAT.
As part of President Biden’s climate agenda — he announced in 2021 his intention to create a 100% carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035. Twelve projects were selected for a total of $251 million in funding to support Biden’s development of new and expected commercial carbon storage projects across seven states with capacities to securely store 50 or more million metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to the Department of Energy.
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