Job-Killing Regs Remind Voters Of Casey’s Rubberstamp Support For Obama
WASHINGTON — As liberal U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and President Barack Obama ditch urgent bipartisan budget talks and jet off to raise campaign cash together, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) burdensome new regulations are killing jobs and raising energy costs for Pennsylvania families – reminding voters once again that Casey puts his loyalty to President Obama over the best interests of his state.
According to National Economic Research Associates, the Obama EPA’s onerous new regulations will hurt Pennsylvania’s crucial coal industry, increase electricity costs by at least 12 percent in 2016 and kill more than 1.4 million jobs nationwide.
“Instead of fighting back against the Obama Administration’s job-killing regulations, Bob Casey is busy jetting around raising campaign cash with President Obama,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “It’s clear that the only job Senator Casey cares about saving is his own.”
Background Information:
| “American Electric Power Chairman Michael Morris announced last week that his company would be forced to close five coal-fired power plants, spend an additional $8 billion refitting other plants, and lose 6,000 megawatts of its coal-generated capacity if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency follows through with its latest proposed regulation of coal power plants. That’s just fine with President Obama and Lisa Jackson, whom he appointed as EPA administrator. Their goal is to put people like Morris and utilities like AEP out of the coal-fired generation business.” (Editorial, Washington Examiner, June 15, 2011)
Impacts of EPA’s Clean Air Transport Rule and Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology proposals include:
· Increased electricity sector costs by $184 billion or $17.8 billion per year; · Increased U.S. retail electricity prices in 2016 by 12 percent, with regional increases as much as about 24 percent; and, · Net employment in the U.S. would be reduced by more than 1.4 million by 2020 |
