You wont see this reported in mainstream media. Administrator McCarthy: More of the Same Fabled Claims Washington, D.C. – EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy reiterated familiar claims about her agency’s newly proposed carbon regulations in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this morning. McCarthy was the sole witness at her first Congressional hearing on the matter since the rule was released in early June. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) cried foul on Administrator McCarthy’s completely misleading characterization of the regulations and vowed to continue illuminating the truth and setting the record straight. “Ahead of EPA’s public hearing tour next week, during what the agency has claimed will be an honest conversation with stakeholders, we were hopeful that Administrator McCarthy would finally own up to the true costs of her agency’s carbon regulations. Instead, she fed us the same lines we’ve heard over and over again, sending our Pinocchio meter off the charts and making it crystal clear that this administration will spare no one to execute its costly climate change mission,” said Laura Sheehan, senior vice president for communications at ACCCE. “Administrator McCarthy must be reading a completely different document than the one her agency put forth on June 2, calling the rule the most ‘respectful’ she ‘has ever been involved in at the federal level.’ In reality, we know that the rule, a carbon copy of a radical and unworkable Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) proposal, offers limited flexibility to states and will leave American consumers footing the exorbitant bill—all for negligible climate benefits.” Administrator McCarthy claimed that states have enormous flexibility to achieve the stipulated targets in EPA’s proposal. In reality, however, the proposal sets requirements that states have limited opportunity to change. Many states must reduce emission rates by over 40 percent by 2030. In setting these requirements, EPA made critical assumptions about each state with limited input from or coordination with the states. EPA has decided how much coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy each state should consume and how much less electricity consumers should use. If states disagree with EPA, they have only until October 16—120 days— to understand, analyze and rebut EPA’s analysis of each state. “Administrator McCarthy avowed that the rule ‘as proposed’ will effectively reduce carbon from the nation’s fossil fuel power plants, leaving us questioning whether next week’s public hearings, the 120-day comment period and EPA’s claims of broad stakeholder input are all for show,” added Sheehan. As several senators alluded to during the hearing, a recent article by Coral Davenport of the New York Times explored how closely the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carbon rules for existing power plants resemble a proposal put forward by the NRDC. SNL investigated the matter and found that EPA did, indeed, borrow very heavily from NRDC’s plan in its own proposal. ACCCE released its own infographic demonstrating the striking similarity between the two plans. # # # # # Please contact you Congressional Representatives and tell them to stop the EPAs abuse of power. This is NOT a reasoned dialogue. It is yet another unilateral mandate from an Administration out of control - and out of touch with reality.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:45:36 +0000
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