State Views: New EPA regulation will kill jobs, raise energy prices

News
June 7, 2014
Scott Manley
 
The EPA’s global-warming rule will be especially destructive to manufacturing jobs in our state. Wisconsin has the second-most manufacturing jobs per capita in the United States, and those jobs rely upon affordable and reliable energy to remain viable.
 
The electric-rate spikes inevitably resulting from this new rule will make it much more costly to manufacture goods in Wisconsin, providing an incentive to shift that production to another state or another country. In the end, many middle-class working families will pay the cost of this rule with their jobs.
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And the rest of the world will increase carbon emissions by 4.7 billion tons over the same time period as American families suffer.
 
For those keeping score at home, that means other countries will collectively increase carbon emissions by six tons for every ton reduced by Americans under the EPA rule. So much for saving the planet.
 
Read the full article at Wisconsin Gazette Xtra.