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.
She seems a lot like someone who’d slip up behind you and start gnawing on your ankle if she could. But Fur Shur, she’s a camp guard type.
That would be 25000 MPH, not 15000MPH
The tenth of Never would be good.
It’s not just AEP - TVA, a federal agency, is also planning on decommissioning several older coal-fired generating units because of the environazis at EPA. That is public information. My wallet is getting nervous because my energy rates are going to continue to climb.
17,000 premature deaths prevented? How does she figure that one? Does anybody even die from mercury in the air these days?
120,000 cases of childhood asthma prevented? I suppose that could be true, provided that these rules eliminate rat scat, dust mites and other breathing hazards in the home.
850,000 days of missed work due to illness prevented? How many of those sick days are even due to somebody actually being ill?
PING!
Judging by that picture of her, I would have to agree with your assessment.
Bump
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Lashes Out at Utility Companies For Spilling the Beans
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What Beans ???
Baked Beans
Green Beans
Lima Beans
Kidney Beans
Canned Beans
Mexican Jumping Beans
Bush Beans
Pole Beans
Scarlett Runner Beans
Jackson is the first person of African American descent to serve as EPA Administrator
In a draw-dropping example of the old saw that “correlation does not equate to causation” the administrator told America that the Clean Air Act has created a venerable cornucopia of riches:
“…as air pollution has dropped over the last 40 years, our national GDP has risen by 207 percent. The total benefits of the Clean Air Act amount to more than 40 times the costs of regulation. For every one dollar we have spent, we have received more than $40 of benefits in return, making the Clean Air Act one of the most cost-effective things the American people have done for themselves in the last half century.”
My goodness, that’s for sure.
“…as Keith Richard has shriveled continuously over the last 40 years, our national GDP has risen by 207 percent.”
Makes about as much sense.
(CNSNews.com) – After Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson testified on Feb. 2 that regulating drinking water might help prevent children from getting autism, CNSNews.com asked Jackson by e-mail whether she could provide “any data, studies, documents, reports or other sources” to confirm her claim. Her office subsequently stated there were “emerging studies” but provided no evidence.
In an e-mail statement to CNSNews.com on Feb. 11, Jackson said there were “emerging studies” that show a possible link between autism and environmental factors. But repeated requests by e-mail and by telephone to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking them to produce those studies or other documentation to support her claim were not answered.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-can-t-provide-documentation-supporti
Some of BOs admin are liberal elites, some are hard-core communists and some are just plain idealistic idiots.
“My electric furnace cost me $400-500/MONTH from December to April...”
Scary isn’t it? One of my Little-Olds turned her electric heat to 60 this past winter and stayed under an electric blanket.
I fully expect to find her frozen to death some winter. Our church tries to fund as many as we can, but funds are stretching less and less as prices go higher and more people need help.
I just hope this summer isn’t as extreme as last.
Please point out the flaw in the science behind it. It’s based on unrelated medical journal findings of mercury exposure effects combined with measurements.
Did you file a comment during the public comment period?
See the info at
http://www.epa.gov/hg/
Unlike many EPA claims, there’s pretty good science behind this one.
The numbers are perhaps debatable, and the response, but it’s all laid out in the EPA documents how they got those numbers.
The cost of running an ATM will skyrocket!
The ATM's might have to be replaced with people.
But....no...the people would have to be given 0bamaCare.
Wait!....Wait!....The new employees will be union jobs and given an exemption.
Problem solved!
Please take a look at the actual study. There might be legitimate conclusions.
Here are a few of the sources they used. Do you have problems with them, or with the distribution modeling used, or what?
EXACTLY!
Prove it, Lisa!
These *sses just make up statistics with no credibility. The MSM just lap it up as if it was fact.
Really? If she is so certain... Name them.
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