Category: EPA

What a deal: a minimum of $100 million in costs for just one utility in exchange for no benefits — even on a nationwide basis. Continue reading Kentucky utility: EPA mercury rules to cost it $100 million

“It is a massive power grab that threatens to give EPA nearly unfettered power over the electrical power we need to support our livelihoods and living standards.” Continue reading CFACT: EPA Mercury Rules For Electricity Generating Units Based On False Science And Economics

“The economic harm here is devastating.” Continue reading Pueblo Chieftain: Obama’s ‘Power Grab’

“The rest of the purported benefits—to be precise, 99.99%—come by double-counting pollution reductions like soot that the EPA regulates through separate programs and therefore most will happen anyway. Using such “co-benefits” is an abuse of the cost-benefit process and shows that Cass Sunstein’s team at the White House regulatory office—many of whom opposed the rule—got steamrolled.” Continue reading WSJ: Lisa Jackson’s Power Play

The New York Times trashes 450 years of toxicology in a single headline. Continue reading EPA sets ‘poison standards’ for power plants?

Why not a special-ed class or a child’s funeral? Continue reading Gross: EPA power plant rule to be unveiled today at children’s hospital