EPA REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN AN INSANE MOMENT!

EPA’s regulatory shell-game harms Americans’ jobs, healthLast week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., lobbed two anti-baloney missiles into the armored underbelly of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. One was a new report eviscerating the sugar-coated cost estimates from EPA’s Clean Air Act regulations. The other was a Senate oversight hearing that exposed the deceptive methods the agency uses to calculate the benefits of regulating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. Obama’s EPA has made extravagant claims about its regulations. A March 2011 news release on their proposed Mercury Air Toxics Rule said, “This rule will provide employment for thousands by supporting 31,000 short-term construction jobs and 9,000 long-term utility jobs.” A recent publicity sheet said, “This rule will prevent 100,000 asthma attacks, and 5,000 heart attacks, and up to 11,000 premature deaths each year.”Read More