EPA's New Regulations on Fossil Resources : 600,000 Jobs Lost

If you want to pick one unelected department or agency that has the power to destroy our country all by itself, it has to be the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA. It seems to have the power to wright laws and enforce those laws no matter what the congress says or does.

The EPA can declare science fact without proof or validation - all it has to do is say it is so, and it becomes fact. The best case in point is the declaration that Carbon Dioxide (C02) is dangerous and therefore must to regulated or eliminated from our environment.

There is no scientific facts that the EPA can produce that proves CO2 has any significant effect on our environment. Still regulations coming from the EPA that is distend to eliminate all coal fired energy producing plants and will highly regulate all 'fracking' for oil and natural gas, which in turn will drive the price continually upward. And this is where the 'green energy' plan comes into view that Mr Obama said he wanted and " if the coal industry and others wanted to build new plants, they can, but with my Cap and Trade policy the costs will skyrocket and these cost will be passed on to the customers". Already more then 6000 jobs have been lost in the coal industry.

Get the picture? The EPA is Mr Obama.

How Many Jobs Are Threatened by the EPA in YOUR District?
Amy Payne The Foundry - Heritage Foundation

The Obama Administration is trying to regulate Americans’ livelihoods away. Will Congress do anything to stop it? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing regulation of “greenhouse gases”—something even its own officials have admitted would have no noticeable impact on the climate.

New Heritage research shows the devastating impact it would have, however, on American manufacturing jobs. EPA regulation has been dubbed the “war on coal,” but Heritage’s Nicolas Loris and Filip Jolevski report that “the casualties will extend well beyond the coal industry, hurting families and businesses and taking a significant toll on American manufacturing across the nation.”
Just what would happen if these regulations went forward? Jolevski and Loris, the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, found that by the end of 2023 (emphasis added):

nearly 600,000 jobs will be lost, a family of four’s income will drop by $1,200 per year, and aggregate gross domestic product decreases by $2.23 trillion

And they broke down those numbers on the local level. You can actually see just how many manufacturing jobs would vanish in your own state and congressional district. A few notable points:

• Average of more than 770 jobs losses per congressional district
• Districts in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois hit especially hard
• 19 out of the top 20 worse off congressional districts located in the Midwest

>>> SEE THE IMPACT of the EPA regulations on your state and congressional district
As if that weren’t enough, this extends beyond local jobs. The negative effects on manufacturing and other energy-intensive industries would damage America’s competitiveness in the world, in addition to hurting those at home.

Squeezing major energy sources like coal would drive up energy prices—and that hits poor Americans the hardest. They are already spending a higher proportion of their income on running their households.

The House is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would tie greenhouse gas regulations to standards on economic damage vs. environmental benefits. But as Loris and Jolevski said, “Congress should stop the EPA and all other federal agencies from regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.”

The Obama Administration is already going around Congress to accomplish many parts of its agenda. Members of Congress shouldn’t let bureaucrats bypass them to kill jobs.