Ari Weitzman
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1,840 appearances
13 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5d ago
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The Trump administration does not.
Plainly, as someone convinced that greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change, and who despises coal plants.
I think the Trump administration is right.
The CCS technology in operation today often breaks and is prohibitively expensive.
Roughly 80% of large CCS projects in America have failed due to technical issues, cost overruns, or poor financial returns.
When these systems are working, they consume about fifteen to twenty five percent of the energy output at these plants, eating into their margins and making them economically infeasible to operate.
And of course, that's the whole ballgame here.
Democrats with a large environmentalist constituency want to close coal plants down.
Republicans with a large constituency of stakeholders in coal want to keep them open.
Either way, over time, coal is going to lose.
Ninety-nine percent of existing coal plants are more expensive to operate than new wind or solar plants would be.
Coal is unhealthy both to those who live near plants and to those who mine it, and coal power is responsible for an ever decreasing share of our national energy output.
We're long past the fight over investing in coal.
Today's battle, instead,
is over whether to hasten the industry's demise or keep it on life support a little bit longer.
And that brings us to the final act.
Can the EPA even do this?
On one hand, of course it can.
The EPA's whole purview is to decide how to enact existing laws.
On the other hand, it actually has to enact those laws.
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