Jackson’s EPA once asserted that two of its rules — the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and the Mercury Air Toxics Standard — would annually produce benefits of $380 billion — equal to about 2.5% of US GDP! Continue reading
Category Archives: Costs and benefits
Lisa Jackson pushes canard that $1 worth of EPA rules bring $30 in economic benefits
Posted in Air pollution, Costs and benefits, EPA
Gallup: More Americans Still Prioritize Economy Over Environment
Duh… poor countries can’t afford to protect the environment. Continue reading
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Chamber study debunks EPA figures on job-creating regulations
In some cases, the study concluded, there was no evidence that the agency even attempted to analyze the effect of regulations on employment. Continue reading
Posted in Costs and benefits, EPA
WashTimes: EPA busts private-sector budgets with rules that cost $353 billion
The equivalent of all the wealth generated each year in Virginia’s private-sector economy. Continue reading
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Congress should look at EPA’s cost benefits
“The war on coal-fired power should be worth the price, and isn’t.” [Charleston Daily Mail]
Posted in Coal, Costs and benefits
Driessen: EPA anti-energy regulations killing jobs
“More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected, unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” [Washington Times]
Posted in Air pollution, Costs and benefits, EPA, Human testing
New Report Examines Failed D.C. Bag Tax
Two years after Washingtonians were forced to begin paying the much-lamented bag tax passed by the D.C. City Council in 2009, a new study released this week by the Boston-based Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) and commissioned by Americans for Tax Reform highlights the unrealistic assumptions of bag-tax proponents, as well as the unintended and negative economic consequences of D.C.’s bag tax. Continue reading
Posted in Costs and benefits, Environmentalism, Green hell
Tagged government cash grab, plastic bags, sack tax
James Delingpole: Socialized medicine, from a survivor
Welcome, America, to the British NHS. That may not be what you were promised when your president first dreamed up Obamacare. But the National Health Service is what you’re going to get all the same. Continue reading
NYT: ‘The Phony Regulation Debate’
The Senescent Crone proving once more it does not understand diminishing and negative returns Continue reading
Canada axes green advisory body
“The Canadian government is to mark the 25th anniversary of its green business advisers by shutting the agency down” Trouble is this “green advisory body” has less to do with science than economic sabotage and paganism. Good riddance. Continue reading
Farm groups weigh in on approval of 2,4-D-Tolerant Corn
Some of the nation’s largest farm and commodity organizations sent a strong message to USDA Friday, urging support for the Agriculture Department to follow science-based decisions on new products derived from biotechnology. Continue reading
Posted in 2,4-D, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Chemophobia, Costs and benefits
Sen. Barrasso Releases Report: ‘Red Tape Making Americans Sick’
Studies show that EPA regulations cost Americans their jobs and health. Continue reading
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EPA regulations eliminate more than 1,850 jobs
“EPA’s Gina McCarthy once predicted that the MATS rule would generate 8,000 to 46,000 jobs. Rather than undertake expensive retrofits, more than two dozen plants simply closed.” Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Costs and benefits, EPA
Saving jobs key issue at Homer City plant hearing
People want real jobs not phantom health benefits. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Coal, Costs and benefits, EPA
Boudreaux: In praise of petroleum
Why photos of oil-covered wildlife are dangerous. Continue reading
Posted in Costs and benefits, Oil and gas
Obama’s Second Term To-Do List Positioned to Out-Regulate Bush
“If Obama’s goal is to beat Bush in regulation, the math looks better for him than the math for Romney in delegates.” Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Costs and benefits
IBD: Regulation Nation
“Over the first three years of each administration, Obama’s White House created four times as many rules as the Bush administration. This is the regulatory regime that was supposed to bring growth and job creation.” Continue reading
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David Bier: Experts on Caring about the Environment
Common sense teaches that the world would be a better place if people were more informed about it. Continue reading
Steward: Voodoo environomics
“The phantom gains and real losses stemming from voodoo environomics are starting to be realized.” Continue reading
Economist: Rule-making is being made to look more beneficial under Barack Obama
“Mr Obama’s EPA has considered raising the value of cutting the risk of death by cancer on the ground that it is a more horrifying way to die than others.” Continue reading
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