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Posted By: Scott Weiser via The Denver Gazette
September 6, 2022
Radical
environmentalists are Technocracy’s stooges to completely deconstruct
the world. Banning natural gas is suicidal, anti-civilizational and
anti-human. Perhaps they would like to live as homeless in tents on
Portland’s tree-lined, crime-ridden, drug-infested neighborhoods. ⁃ TN
Editor
More than two dozen environmental organizations
petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of natural
gas for home heating nationwide, arguing the federal agency must
regulate “deadly pollution from heating appliances.”
The petition,
sponsored by the Sierra Club, claims fossil fuel-fired home furnaces,
water heaters, clothes dryers and stoves emit enough nitrogen dioxide
(NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) that they must be classified as “new
stationary sources” of air pollutants, placing them in the same
regulatory regime as power plants and factories.
The petition
resembles – but goes beyond Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Roadmap for
a clean heat program, a key component of efforts to transition to a
natural gas-free heating economy.
“Gas heating appliances, such as
water heaters, furnaces, boilers, stoves, and clothes dryers represent
about 80% of fossil fuel-fired heating appliances and emit the majority
of appliance pollution, including both climate-disrupting GHG emissions
and pollutants that directly impact human health,” the petition says.
“The
data is incontrovertible: heating appliances in residential and
commercial buildings contribute significantly to pollution that
endangers public health and welfare. The emissions from these sources
are major drivers of the dual crises of climate change and unclean air,”
the petition adds.
Some critics described the petition as a sham
and excuse to go after carbon dioxide emissions, with regulation of
nitrogen dioxide as the vehicle to accomplish that goal.
The
petition’s reading would force the EPA to set NOx standards that would
effectively ban the use of natural gas in all new construction within a
year after the regulation is implemented. Even existing gas appliances
would have to be replaced eventually – at the end of their life cycle or
when they break down.
“Emissions from buildings have a harmful,
and frankly scary, impact on human health and contribute significantly
to the climate crisis,” Amneh Minkara, Sierra Club’s Building
Electrification Campaign Deputy Director, said in a news release.
The
petitioners said policymakers “must act at the local, state, and
federal levels to ensure that marginalized communities are among the
first to benefit from the transition away from fossil fuel systems in
favor of electric technology.”
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