Thursday, October 20, 2016

Bad news for the EPA

Court rules that they have to evaluate how many coal mining and power plant jobs will be lost based on their regulations.  It seems that they haven't done this since 1977.

This will certainly get appealed, because the EPA will not be allowed to issue any regulations if job losses are considered.

6 comments:

Old NFO said...

Yep, it will be interesting to see if they even comply!

Gordon Freece said...

There's a penumbra or an emanation in there somewhere that'll get them off the hook. The government doesn't say "no" to itself on anything that matters.

Ted said...

Not a problem ...... the EPA will just makeup numbers for an equal amount of green energy jobs created to offset the number of actuall jobs destroyed

Tewshooz said...

EPA does not care what the courts say. Rules for thee but not for me.

Goober said...

Exactly the point i was going to make. How many jobs were created just making diesel particulate filters in 2006 and 2007 alone.

Epa isn't even worried, they can show job creation overall, I bet.

Nonesuch River 1758 said...

Folks, if you believe the Archdruid on this topic (and I do), those jobs are going away Real Soon Now whether or not the EPA shuts them down or the coal companies go bust. A more fruitful line of inquiry would be "what non-coal jobs can we create". That's if you can quit complaining about the government and think about solutions.