ALEC Behind Premature Attacks on EPA Carbon Emission Standards
From Ring of Fire:
Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not scheduled to propose carbon emission limits from existing power plants until June, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is already gearing up to oppose the standards. According to EcoWatch, ALEC and other industry groups are not even waiting to see the EPA’s draft standard for emissions before they begin working to oppose EPA action.
Already ALEC has issued two resolutions in response to the EPA’s plan to regulate carbon emission standards under the Clean Air Act. ALEC legislators have introduced a dozen bills opposing the EPA in states across the country, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The corporate bill mill’s attacks on the EPA’s proposed carbon emission limits are weak at best.
ALEC argues that EPA emission standards will hurt the economy, though it has been shown that we can significantly cut carbon pollution in addition to creating 200,000 jobs and lowering average monthly electric bills nationally.
You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.
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Like with their tax cuts "hammer everything else is a nail" approach to public policy, this phrase- used to justify doing absolutely nothing worthwhile to make things better- has been used so many times it's become virtually a self-parody. What's worse is that nobody ever demands a follow-up explanation about how exactly tax cuts, regulation, etc. actually harms the economy. It's become almost become accepted conventional wisdom that all of these things harm the economy despite any actual evidence presented that it actually does.
