How EPA Could Destroy 7.3 Million Jobsby William Shughart IIBig Government Nov. 25, 2010 |
![]() Environmental Protection Agency officials Wednesday provided power companies and states with new guidance on EPA's plans to regulate greenhouse gases. A D.C. lobbyist for two major power companies told Bloomberg News that "the energy and manufacturing sectors will essentially be in a construction moratorium" as a consequence. Here we are, with 15 million Americans unemployed and millions more underemployed, and the EPA is moving blindly ahead with new regulations that will increase dramatically the energy costs of U.S. industries, reducing their competitiveness and profitability, and making it less likely they will hire. Read More |