Fordham Debate To Center On Regulation Of Emissions
None by Eric Ray
(KCPW News) Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson says the federal government should become immediately involved in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.Anderson says a "cap and trade" program can be implemented which would cap the amount of carbon emissions and allow trading of emissions among firms. Anderson also favors enhanced fuel efficiency standards and higher gasoline taxes.
Arnold Reitze, director of the environmental law program at George Washington University's School of Law, doubts a "cap and trade" program would receive the political support it would need to be implemented. He says the nation needs to reduce the use of fossil fuels and use cleaner forms of energy.
Anderson and Reitze will debate the issue further tonight at 6pm for the S.J. Quinney College of Law's annual Fordham debate at the University of Utah. Admission is free. To hear today's interview, log on to the Midday Metro page at www.kcpw.org.
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1. Michael T Packard BSEE said:
We need to understand what programs conserve large amounts quickly.
UTA claimed in its 50 millionth Trax passenger press release that TrAX had cut CO2 by 259 million pounds...a lie!
UTA has always lied about the comparability of bus or trax trips to car trips. Further, they presume those trains don't really use electgricity that must be generated. UDAQ and WFRC have data showing about 50% is saved compared to cars.
Bottom line is that less than 90 million pounds, or 45,000 tons have been saved.
The FTA is worse, for 4 years they advertised that their New Starts program saved 55 to 60 billion tons per year. (type 55 billion tons CO2dern into google).
The big performer is Nuclear Power: 16 billion tons to date.
We already have nuclear waste. We will deal with it... and the volume is tiny compared to coal with tens of billions of tons of waste..enough to cover Salt Lake several hundred feet deep.
Nuclear
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