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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (765802)	1/25/2014 2:04:24 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577146

Uh, coal plants are dirty. Fly ash, mercury, sulfur compounds, etc. They are closed for those reasons, not because of their carbon output. I grew up in the middle of what is still the largest petrochemical complex in the world. It was the birth of the modern oil industry, Pre-EPA the air quality was very, very bad. Living close to a refinery meant having to paint your house every year or two because the sulfur dioxide in the air combined with the moisture to form sulfuric acid. Sometimes the acid concentration was so high it would eat the pantyhose off of women. When there was an inversion, cars would have to turn on their headlights during the day. That isn't true any more. So no, EPA regulations are not worthless.