EPA regulations aim to close power plants, sending
hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment line!
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has plans to impose 946 pages of new regulations on U.S. power plants.
Disregarding the fact that U.S. energy companies' emissions are already low, and considerably less than pollutants found in nature from volcanoes and geysers, the EPA is primed and ready to send American businesses and consumers an annual bill of $10.9 billion a year!
The EPA is imposing Barack
Obama's agenda to use air pollution and carbon dioxide restrictions as an effort to require energy companies to lower emissions to zero, which will bankrupt coal companies - causing utility rates to skyrocket!
The American Electric Power Co. Inc. told The Houston Chronicle that the EPA's new regulations would require the company to shut down five plants and reduce operations at six others, with a loss of 600 jobs, to comply with new rules for coal-fired power plants.
According to U.S. News and World Report: The EPA's pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent, according to a new study based on government data.
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As a result, the EPA's regulations will not only lead to increased unemployment, but will also lead to higher prices on food, and increased costs for heating and air conditioning!
The EPA claims that its regulations are fair, and are an effort to limit emissions of mercury, lead and other toxins from coal-fired plants. But to build its case against mercury, the EPA ignored evidence and clinical studies that contradict its regulatory agenda - which is to punish hydrocarbon use.
According to Willie Soon, an independent scientist and expert on mercury and public health issues, and Paul Driessen, a senior policy adviser for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, the EPA systematically cherry-picked supportive studies (many of them dated) and ignored extensive evidence and clinical studies that contradict its regulatory agenda, which is to punish hydrocarbon use and close down coal-fired power plants.
And, to advance its green agenda, the EPA has given at least $3.8 billion in taxpayer money to various nonprofit and advocacy organizations and environmental justice groups over the past decade.
Soon and Driessen report that: America's coal-burning power plants emit an estimated 41-48 tons of mercury per year. U.S. forest fires emit at least 44 tons per year. Cremation of human remains discharges 26 tons. Chinese power plants eject 400 tons, and volcanoes, sub-sea vents, geysers and other sources spew out 9,000-10,000 additional tons per year. And, the 200 million tons of mercury naturally present in seawater have never posed a danger to any living being.
Please CLICK HERE to FAX Congress to tell members to STOP THE EPA'S DRACONIAN JOB-KILLING REGULATIONS! Urge members to vote for S.892, a bill that would save up-to $3 billion a year, and SAVE AMERICAN JOBS! Please also include a DONATION to the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund, so we can continue to inform Americans about government overreach.
And yet, the EPA nevertheless demands that utility companies spend billions every year retrofitting the coal-fired power plants that produce half of all U.S. electricity, and 70 to 98% of electricity in 12 states.
Soon and Driessen add that: mercury (Hg) has always existed naturally in Earth's environment; mercury is found in air, water, rocks, soil and trees (which absorb it from the environment). This is why our bodies evolved with proteins and antioxidants that help protect us from this and other potential contaminants.
A further defense comes from selenium, which is found in fish and animals.
Its strong attraction to mercury molecules protects fish and people against buildups of methylmercury, mercury's biologically active and more toxic form.
The EPAs regulators simultaneously ignore the positive results of medical studies that clearly show its new restrictions are not needed and will not improve people's health. ... The proposed standards will do nothing to reduce exaggerated threats from mercury and other air pollutants. Indeed, the rules will worsen, rather than improve America's health -- especially for young children and women of child-bearing age. Not only will they raise heating, air conditioning and food costs; they will scare people away from nutritious fish that should be a part of everyone's diet.
Since our power plants account for less than 0.5% of all the mercury in the air we breathe, eliminating every milligram of it will do nothing about the other 99.5% in our atmosphere. And, while environmentalists are very concerned about the 41 to 48 tons of mercury released into the atmosphere by U.S. coal-fired power plants, they don't see a threat in the 400 tons of mercury coughed up by China's fossil fuel power plants.
The EPA nevertheless demands that American utility companies spend billions every year retrofitting coal-fired power plants that produce half of all U.S. electricity.
CLICK HERE to FAX Congress to tell members to STOP THE EPA'S DRACONIAN JOB-KILLING REGULATIONS! Urge members to vote for S. 892, a bill that would save up-to $3 billion a year, and SAVE AMERICAN JOBS! Please also include a DONATION to the CDFE Action Fund, so we can continue to inform Americans about government overreach.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the price hikes from a 15 percent cut in emissions would increase energy costs for the average American household to between $680 and $1,500, every year!
The Wall Street Journal reports that: ...the greatest inequities are geographic and would be imposed on the parts of the U.S. that rely most on manufacturing or fossil fuels -- particularly coal, which generates most power in the Midwest, Southern and Plains states.
Coal provides more than half of U.S. electricity, and 25 states get more than 50% of their electricity from conventional coal-fired generation.
In Ohio, it totals 86%, according to the Energy Information Administration. Ratepayers in Indiana (94%), Missouri (85%), New Mexico (80%), Pennsylvania (56%), West Virginia (98%) and Wyoming (95%) are going to get soaked.
With the nation's electrical power grids already taxed, green car manufacturers like GM want Congress to slap an additional $1 per gallon tax on gasoline to force consumers to buy electric cars. GM wants people plugging their cars into an electrical outlet for fuel rather than at the neighborhood Exxon, putting even greater stress on the electrical power grids as the EPA tries to kill the coal industry without wondering where those electric cars are going to “fill up” during the brown outs that will become much more common without the ample supply of electricity coal provides.
RIGHT NOW, the EPA continues to overreach its authority by pushing the Obama Administration's green agenda which will ultimately destroy the American economy by imposing impossible regulations that will bankrupt U.S. businesses, leading to even more employee layoffs and imposing lower standards of living on American consumers. Stop the EPA's harmful regulations that are costly and unnecessary! SEND FAXES to every member of Congress to alert them to STOP the EPA's POWER GRAB! These regulations will cut American jobs and increase food and utility prices for hard-working American families! Please also include a DONATION to the CDFE Action Fund, so we can continue to inform Americans about government overreach.
To put an end to the EPA's unnecessary and costly regulations, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), introduced S.892, the Consolidation of Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency Act of 2011, a bill that would merge the Department of Energy (DOE) and the EPA into a single, new agency called the Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE).
By combining the duplicative functions of the EPA and DOE, the consolidation could save U.S. taxpayers more than $3 billion a year based on projections made by the Government Accountability Office and the President's 2012 budget request.
The DOEE could also restore the original stated purpose and goals of the EPA, which included protecting human health, safeguarding the natural environment and addressing the energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges of the U.S. through transformative science and technology solutions - without overreaching its constitutional authority.
Sen. Burr's bill would ELIMINATE the EPA's unfair and unnecessary regulations that penalize hard-working Americans who, under the EPA's new requirements, would suffer job losses and would be impoverished by the exorbitant costs added to food and utilities.
If Congress passes S.892, the EPA's excessive penalties on U.S. energy companies would be eliminated - saving $3 billion, annually!
Please CLICK HERE TO DEMAND THAT CONGRESS ABOLISH THE EPA! FAX every member of Congress and urge them to support S.892, which will merge the EPA into the Department of Energy. Help STOP the EPA's new regulations before they destroy U.S. industries and our economy! ACT NOW to save America's free enterprise system. Please also include a DONATION to the CDFE Action Fund, so we can continue to inform Americans about government overreach.
Sen. Burr's bill would save money by combining the duplicative functions of the EPA and DOE, and would also ensure that the two entities have a coordinated approach that benefits the environment without imposing outrageous regulations on U.S. energy companies.
The amount of money wasted annually on [the EPA and DOE's] duplicative programs within the federal government is staggering, Sen. Burr said. Merging the two would combine support and administrative offices, and eliminate ineffective or duplicative programs.
Together, we can move Congress to support S.892 - a bill that will save taxpayers $3 billion each year by eliminating the EPA's wasteful spending and harmful regulations!
ABOLISH THE EPA by rolling it into the Department of Energy to reduce wasteful spending, and STOP the EPA's harmful job-killing regulations! Together, we can move Congress to VOTE FOR S.892 - a bill that will eliminate the EPA's job-killing regulations!
Writte by Ron Arnold
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund
www.cdfe.org/cdfe-action-fund
P. S. The EPA is overreaching its authority by making concerted efforts to push the Obama Administration's political agenda. These efforts include penalizing U.S. energy companies by adding $10.9 billion a year to their costs, which will lead to higher unemployment rates, pass expenses on to American consumers, and put U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage. This is why we must unite and demand that members of Congress support and vote for S. 892---a plan that will end the EPA's draconian job-killing regulations!
