Tom Dennis
The Environmental Protection Agency should take notice, and recognize that it could lower carbon emissions a lot more quickly by cooperating with coal-dependent states than by bludgeoning them.
The EPA recently released an ambitious proposal to restrict the amount of carbon dioxide produced by existing power plants. Whatever the proposal’s benefits (and they’re in dispute), they’re almost beside the point because the real-world costs are so great: Higher electricity prices, serious questions about “who’ll keep the lights on?” and, according the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, hundreds of thousands of lost jobs.
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