Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants
Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants
The EPA has been claiming high ozone levels in Colorado are due to Utah coal plants (who don't have scrubbers on them).
Utah’s legislature agreed something needed to be done and set aside $2 million — for legal fees to sue the EPA and avoid the extra cleanup.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/08/colorado-air-pollution-utah-ozone-epa/
As a Utahn, it pisses me off that we still have fucking coal plants here. We have 200-250 days of sun here. Shit, we're at 4-5000 feet of elevation, so the solar flux is fucking intense. Why the fuck haven't we built solar panels and shut these plants down? Why aren't our reservoirs covered in at least some number of panels to cut the evaporation? Rather than fix that, let's scum up the air for us and our neighbors with our shitty 1900s era coal plants and our fucking oil refineries that help contribute to some of the worst air quality in North America when an inversion hits Salt Lake City.
I have nothing but contempt for the basket of cunts our gerrymandered districts keep shitting out. It's amazing how ugly the politics can be in such a beautiful place.
Utah has some of my favorite places earth. It's almost painful how beautiful it can be. It really is a shame what the government there does.
gerrymandered districts
The entire state elects Republicans because they want to. There are no gerrymandered districts. You voted for Donald Trump by 20% in 2020. All your Senators and US Representatives are Republican.
As others have said, Utah is, in fact, heavily gerrymandered. We even had a ballot initiative that passed in 2018 demanding that the legislature draw more fair maps. Rather than do that, the shitfucks at the capitol came up with maps that were somehow even worse. Like, we have some real idiots in this state who want to be abused by fascists for some reason. I'm also an idiot, but I am firmly progressive and do not want to suck on a fascist's boot, and I'm not alone. Utah may be red, but Salt Lake City is very, very blue.
This article does a pretty good job of discussing how fucked the situation here is: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/redistricting-map-utah-salt-lake-city.html
Here's an archive link if you hit a paywall: https://archive.ph/4scLB
Attacking someone personally over the dominant politics of the state the live plays perfectly into the hands of the conservative agenda. Keeps those leftys fighting each other while conservatives push their agenda on all of us with the coordination of unified force.
And by your own statement you are incorrect: if the state legislature and the federal representatives are overwhelmingly Republican, they already gerrymandered the whole state.
