The Road from Lima on Climate Change
EPA uses Jonathan Gruber tactic to impose harmful regulations
Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 12/12/2014 5:35:52 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“Lack of transparency was really critical to getting it passed,” former Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber explained. The Democrats cleverly exploited the American voters’ “lack of economic understanding.”
Now President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is using secretive, duplicitous science, and exploiting people’s lack of scientific understanding, to impose punitive regulations cleverly labeled the “clean power plan.”
The agency claims the clean power plan will prevent “dangerous manmade climate change” by reducing carbon dioxide and “encouraging” greater use of renewable energy. Its real goal is forcing coal-fired power plants to reduce operations significantly or shut down entirely.
The EPA also claims that eliminating coal in electricity generation will bring major health benefits. The benefits are illusory, and the agency ignores the harmful effects its regulations are having on people’s livelihoods, living standards, health and well-being.
The clean power plan augments numerous other anti-coal regulations. Their imaginary benefits include reduced mercury risks for hypothetical American women who eat 296 pounds of fish a year that they catch themselves, and a “0.00209 point” improvement in IQ test scores.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s particulates standard is equivalent to having 1 ounce of superfine soot dispersed in a volume of air one-half mile long, one-half mile wide and one story tall.
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So getting GRUBERed would be equivalent to being lied to for manipulation of opinion.
The Road from Lima on Climate Change
EPA uses Jonathan Gruber tactic to impose harmful regulations
Global Warming on Free Republic
Gruber IS the Democrat/Chicago way...
EPA needs to either be terminated with extreme prejudice, or reigned in and not allowed to write regulations. ALL laws should pass thru congress and congress should stop subjugating their power by allowing regulations to be written.
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