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The quote's first appearance is in E&E News [1]: [Robert] Murray yesterday commended President Trump's announcement that he would try to boost some coal export
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The quote's first appearance is in E&E News [1]:
[Robert] Murray yesterday commended President Trump's announcement that he would try to boost some coal exports, but he said that ultimately what the sector needs is for EPA to nix the endangerment finding.
[Energy Secretary Rick Perry] also has touted carbon capture and sequestration technologies for coal plants, even as he questions whether climate science is settled.
Murray said carbon capture won't help, either.
"Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It's a pseudonym for 'no coal,'" Murray said while waiting for a ride outside DOE headquarters. "It is neither practical nor economic, carbon capture and sequestration. It is just cover for the politicians, both Republicans and Democrats that say, 'Look what I did for coal,' knowing all the time that it doesn't help coal at all."
Murray acknowledged that the legal fight over the endangerment finding would be "tough." He thinks that's because climate activists and renewable power producers want to keep making money off climate change.
"All these people will be jumping on this on the other side because it's all about money, but it is not about America. America needs reliable, low-cost electricity, and that is a mix of different fuels," he said.
Murray's stance refers to the 'endangerment finding', which holds that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act -- a 2009 finding by the EPA after the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA. He disagrees with this interpretation -- particularly about carbon dioxide being classed a pollutant -- and is arguing that the decision should be reversed under the Trump administration, while pointing out that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is largely a phrase that has been hijacked by politicians to tout too-good-to-be-true solutions.
[1] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056858 https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056858