At COP28, John Kerry Wants To Eliminate All U.S. Coal Plants
The Biden Administration is forging ahead with its ‘green’ agenda by committing the United States to not building any new coal plants and phasing out existing plants
U.S. ‘Special Envoy for Climate’ John Kerry announced it at COP28, which is being held in Dubai, although no date was given for when the existing plants would have to go.
“We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities,” Kerry said in a statement.
“The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants.”
Kerry said America was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a pact of nearly 60 countries that have promised to accelerate the phasing out of coal-fired power stations, except the very few that have carbon capture and storage.
Kerry said the action forms part of America’s plan to limit global warming to 1.5 Celsius.
BREAKING: Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry just called for the elimination of every single coal plant on earth (COP28)
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As of October, just under 20 percent of the U.S. electricity is powered by coal, according to the Department of Energy. The amount of coal burned in the United States last year was less than half what it was in 2008.
Last month President Biden said that coal plants “all across America” will be shut down, to be replaced with wind and solar.
A move to close down coal plants in the U.S. is already underway as federal clean energy tax credits and regulations make it harder for operators to compete economically.
A report by the nonpartisan Institute for Energy Economics and Finance Analysis found that 173 coal plants are set to close by 2030 and another 54 by 2040.
For instance, the Brandon Shores coal power plant [header picture] located outside of Baltimore is expected to be deactivated in June 2025 as part of a settlement between the plant’s operator and the left-wing eco group Sierra Club.
The plant has a capacity of 1,295 megawatts, enough to power more than a million homes. …
The U.S. commitment comes despite China unleashing a massive expansion of coal power generation last year.
China already accounts for about 27% of total global emissions, according to Rhodium Group, an independent research provider.
The nation’s emissions output is equivalent to triple the total of the U.S., which is the world’s second-largest emitter.
Furthermore, global delegates heading to COP 28 were last week circulating a letter calling for the U.S. and other Western nations to immediately ban new natural gas infrastructure projects.
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Tom
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Eliminating Kerry would be the much better way to go. What a freaking putz. When is my Arctic ice gonna melt, johhny boy? You are 10 years overdue and according to your silly global warming nonsense, the world is about to melt so the ice should be gone, right?
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Tom,
Do you realize that a good portion of the arctic iisce melts some summers and the following fall?
And I believe the Chinese know that there is no Greenhouse Effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide gas because they know, as I do, that that the atmospheric temperature has never been measured to be lower than the atmosphere’s dew point temperature when both are mearsured at the same place and time. So the atmospheric temperature can never be lower than is measured. Hence,the Chinese continue to build coal fired power plant for themselves and for friendly neighboring nations. I’ve written PSI articles about this observed fact but as yet no one here has clearly agreed with the importance of this common data.
Have a good day
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Nick from Newtown
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Why didnt they just zoom the conference? Could have saved all that jet fuel from thousands of attendees. Equates to a couple billion cow farts. Wonder if they ate prime rib.
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