EPA rules: Bad policy, bad time
February 4th, 2011 in News Archive
By: KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
Politico.com
Since late last year, the Environmental Protection Agency has been rolling out new federal climate regulations that would have the same effects as the job-destroying cap-and-trade policy that Congress rejected last year.
EPA has seized control over parts of several state air programs, empowering the agency to run them federally. EPA has also signaled that additional burdensome regulations are on the horizon. Implementation of these new rules would have devastating economic consequences for families and employers, send U.S. jobs overseas even as unemployment continues to hover above 9 percent and impose federal edicts on states…
