Topic: EPA's Jackson lashes out at power plants - "scare mongering"

[Pandora]

Look who's talking.

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.

Really.  And those numbers come from where?  I'd like to see the Death Certificate that cites cause as "airborne mercury poisoning from power plant".

Can hardly bear to keep up with this crap anymore.

[ToddF]

Any Republican candidate that doesn't target this woman (and the whole idea of us needing to shut down Amercia's power supply) as an enemy to America, doesn't even deserve consideration.

[Sectionhand]

This should come as no surprise . In fact it's one of the few concrete promises Stymie made in 2008 that he's made good on . The stupid bastard will be the ruination of us yet !

[Glock32]

Is there any doubt that the end goal is to eliminate all private industry? Whether by bankrupting them or imposing an impossible array of regulatory requirements, they want to set the table for state takeover of one industry after another. And they'll have the sheer nerve to blame the failures on the private industries themselves -- "Look, they couldn't do it. We had no choice but to nationalize them."

[Libertas]

Ya all are right!

I can't take much more of this crap, anybody not capable of seeing the dire need to get rid of the EPA & Jackson is brain dead, and Stymie is trying to ruin us all!

  'em!