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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Lashes Out at Utility Companies For Spilling the Beans
Gateway Pundit ^ | 6-15-11 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 06/15/2011 3:26:48 PM PDT by radioone

Let’s face it. Obama doesn’t give a damn about creating jobs. He only cares about fundamentally changing America and destroying its wealth.

American Electric Power announced this week that the latest Obama EPA regulations will cost the company at least 600 jobs and over $6 billion which will be pushed on consumers.

Today, Barack Obama’s horrible EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson lashed out at utility companies for revealing the economic destruction of her department’s policies. She then claimed her administration’s policies will prevent premature deaths… What garbage. The Hill reported:

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson struck back Wednesday at American Electric Power, the powerful utility that recently claimed looming EPA rules will prompt a wave of coal plant closures and cost scores of jobs.

“Misleading at best, scare tactics at worst,” Jackson told reporters Wednesday after testifying at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Clean Air Act rules.

AEP — a major coal-burning utility — last week said that EPA rules for air toxics, ozone-forming pollutants and other regulations will prompt closure of five coal-fired power plants and require costly changes at others, create a direct loss of 600 jobs and significantly boost power costs for businesses.

The utility is urging a delay in the compliance periods for the rules.

But Jackson, in her testimony to the committee, cited major benefits from implementation of Clean Air Act rules. She has accused industry lobbyists of peddling in inaccurate “doomsday” scenarios.

She noted, for instance, that new standards for power plant emissions of mercury and other air toxics proposed in March will prevent an estimated 17,000 premature deaths, 120,000 cases of childhood asthma and 850,000 days of missed work due to illness.

These radical leftists are shameless.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: aep; agw; coal; democrats; economy; energy; envirofascism; epa; epabrownshirts; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; govtabuse; jackson; liberalfascism; lisajackson; obama; unemployment
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To: Jacquerie

Lisa Jackson is still the same old Fascist Pig she’s always been. Nothing good can come of having that woman in a government job.


21 posted on 06/15/2011 4:07:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: radioone
“...will prevent an estimated 17,000 premature deaths,..."

And this is a proven fact, how?

And what exactly is a "premature" death anyway? The alphabet soup agencies, AKA our government, love to toss around that phrase along with scary numbers whatever is the current the killer du jour.

22 posted on 06/15/2011 4:14:00 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: radioone

IOW “I deny their objective data and offer these subjective statements in rebuttal.”


23 posted on 06/15/2011 4:23:06 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We own the economy’ June 15, 2011)
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To: radioone; marvlus; DollyCali; markomalley; Bockscar; Thunder90; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Normandy; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

24 posted on 06/15/2011 4:23:47 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: MPJackal

I can tell you who the EPA policies will kill for sure: Poor, old people & the disabled who have to choose whether to pay the utilities bill or eat!


25 posted on 06/15/2011 4:23:56 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: radioone; All

I work for AEP. This statement has been the talk of the company for a week now. Let me assure you, the statementis neither misleading or scare tactics. It’s a fact!


26 posted on 06/15/2011 4:31:36 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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To: radioone

Got to have a job to miss work due to illness.


27 posted on 06/15/2011 4:33:50 PM PDT by BMWR1200C
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To: MPJackal

what work days? by the time they get done with us there won’t be any.


28 posted on 06/15/2011 4:33:50 PM PDT by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: mozarky2
I work for AEP.

I honestly think we need one of two things to happen:

.....1) All coal plants shut down on a "national strike" for a week to demonstrate how things would be without them. Then publish the cost of compliance and show there is no real gain from the extra cost. Let the public make a demand to get rid of these regs based on their own cost/benefit analysis at home.

.....or.....

.....2) All coal plants refuse to abide by the new rules in solidarity and keep on with business as usual.

In either case, the federal government would have to either back down or arrest every single person involved. The public would probably learn more from the plant shutdowns since they would feel pain and hardship.

29 posted on 06/15/2011 4:45:14 PM PDT by SteamShovel (The RADIATION PIMPS...are RATS)
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To: All

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30 posted on 06/15/2011 4:45:14 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: radioone
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson struck back Wednesday at American Electric Power, the powerful utility that recently claimed looming EPA rules will prompt a wave of coal plant closures and cost scores of jobs.

“Misleading at best, scare tactics at worst,” Jackson told reporters Wednesday after testifying at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Clean Air Act rules.

Yea, loosing the revenue from FIVE power plants is "scare tactics."

How dare that evil power company actually want to make money.

It must be tough living full time in stupid land.

31 posted on 06/15/2011 4:57:11 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: radioone

The only deaths that will occur are the old folks dying of frost bite or heat stroke because their power was turned off for nopayment...


32 posted on 06/15/2011 4:58:09 PM PDT by tubebender (Help! I've fallen, and I can't reach my wine!)
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To: radioone

and why are there no women in that breadline photo?


33 posted on 06/15/2011 4:59:36 PM PDT by tubebender (Help! I've fallen, and I can't reach my wine!)
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To: TLI
Yea, loosing the revenue

Dang!

Did it again.

> > > LOSING < < < as in "The communist agenda is always a loser."

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34 posted on 06/15/2011 5:12:17 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: wita

They have a few that are empty


35 posted on 06/15/2011 5:13:04 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: radioone
She noted, for instance, that new standards for power plant emissions of mercury and other air toxics proposed in March will prevent an estimated 17,000 premature deaths, 120,000 cases of childhood asthma and 850,000 days of missed work due to illness.

How many premature deaths and cases of childhood illness will be caused by parents losing or not being able to get a job or having to use an increasingly greater percent of their income on energy?
36 posted on 06/15/2011 5:25:13 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: radioone

Where is Congress???


37 posted on 06/15/2011 5:25:14 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: muawiyah

These are the people who, given the chance, would send every Freeper to a labor camp.


38 posted on 06/15/2011 5:26:58 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: radioone

Many hard working people will be out on the streets. Sorry, my house can’t take much more.


39 posted on 06/15/2011 5:27:28 PM PDT by dforest
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To: radioone
...will prevent an estimated 17,000 premature deaths, 120,000 cases of childhood asthma and 850,000 days of missed work due to illness.

So, when a company does a cost analysis of what regulations will do to their bottom-line, they are fear mongering and using scare tactics.

But, the administration pulling BS statistics out of the butts on the number of maybe-possibly-kinda sorta prevented nose bleeds is supposed to be gospel?!? Hell, if these numbers are half as accurate as their stimulus estimates, then they still aren't worth the used paper I just flushed down the toilet thirty minutes ago!! IDIOTS!
40 posted on 06/15/2011 5:38:55 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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