Clean Air Transport Rule means fewer jobs, higher energy prices

According to Politico's Morning Energy blog, an EPA Bureacrat has called her agency's new, expanded Clean Air Transport Rule a "huge win" for the EPA.

DUE DATE FOR TRANSPORT RULE — EPA will roll out a major rule to slash air pollution from utilities in the next four days, if the agency makes good on its promised timeline. EPA air chief Gina McCarthy said recently that the so-called transport rule was on track to be issued by the end of June. Under the draft rule, power plants in 31 states and the District of Columbia would be forced to cut emissions that contribute to ozone and fine particle pollution in downwind states. The draft.

McCarthy said the rule will mark a "huge win," for the EPA and stakeholders and called it an opportunity "for a gigantic do-over" from the George W. Bush administration's Clean Air Interstate Rule, which was tossed out in 2008 by a federal appeals court. Some in industry will beg to differ, and lobbyists have flooded into the White House in recent weeks to weigh in on the proposal.

Texas is by far the nation's largest job producer. So when it's Republican congressional delegation writes a letter to Cass Sunstein, administrator of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget declaring that the Clean Air Transport Rule threatens the economy of the Lone Star State--take notice.

Click here to learn how the EPA's Clean Air Transport Rule will cost jobs and increase energy prices.

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