EPA to regulate CO2 under Superfund and create environmental harzards

The ruling that made CO2 a toxic waste will come true if they carry out what they are planning. In air CO2 is harmless but if you start pumping CO2 in pipes around the country your going to cause environmental problems.

The way the loons are taking over in this country we will not have to worry that an EMP will shut down our power plants. We will do it ourselves through costly needless carbon regulation. It is amazing how self destructive people will become just to save themselves from a bogeyman that exists only in their own mind.

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Despite that heritage, the EPA apparently is now figuring out how to throw CO2 (and its emitters) under the Superfund train.This most likely will be a problem for coal-fired power plants — generators of about half of America’s electricity — and other large industrial facilities (to the extent that any still exist in the U.S.) that may be forced by future greenhouse gas regulation to capture and sequester emissions.

Carbon capture and storage advocates imagine that CO2 emissions will be transported from facilities by pipeline to underground geological formations where they hope the gas will be permanently stored.

But as recently reported in this column, a report from the Congressional Research Service spotlighted the many problems with underground CO2 sequestration, including leaking, which could harm groundwater by acidifying it. Groundwater clean-up can be extremely difficult and often was a key driver of expensive Superfund cleanups.

Federal regulation of CO2 as a “hazardous substance,” whether under Superfund or some other law, may bring a host of other problems.

Once a substance is labeled or regulated by one federal program, it automatically or inadvertently can become eligible for additional regulation under other government programs without further affirmative government action.