The job destroying greenhouse gas regulations
Apparently, ’ job destroying’ is a phrase they are attaching to most things now. As if everyone who is concerned about the environment is secretly hoping to destroy jobs. MWAHAHAH! MY EVIL PLAN TO DESTROY MY JOB AND LIFE IS FINALLY IN REACH! (I personally blame rock & roll for my slide into madness.)
WASHINGTON — Now that the House of Representatives has voted to repeal the health care law, Republicans say they’re likely to move soon to another target — a rewrite of the Clean Air Act so that it can’t be used to fight climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency in December said it would draw up performance standards that would help cut heat-trapping gases produced by refineries and coal-fired power plants. The EPA hasn’t proposed the specifics yet, and existing plants wouldn’t be affected until the later years of the decade, but opponents of regulation aren’t waiting.
The new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said he’d have hearings about the impact of the EPA’s emission reduction plan on jobs.
“Standing up for American workers and addressing EPA’s rampant regulations is a top priority, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said Thursday. “We will be active and aggressive using every tool in the toolbox to protect American jobs and our economy by rolling back the job-destroying (greenhouse gas) regulations.”
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