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Tue Jun 3, 2014, 10:12 PM Jun 2014

"GOP's EPA Attacks Discredited"

GOP's EPA Attacks Discredited

by Shadee Ashtari at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/gop-epa-carbon-rule-fact-check_n_5438736.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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As soon as the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new proposal Monday calling for a 30 percent reduction in power plant carbon emissions by 2030, GOP lawmakers unleashed an arsenal of anti-regulation talking points -- most of which turned out to be completely false.

A chorus of claims on potential job losses and skyrocketing electric bills earned Republicans “four Pinocchios” from The Washington Post Fact Checker on Tuesday for citing an outdated May 28 study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In an Energy and Commerce Committee statement Monday, Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) claimed that the new regulation “would cost the economy 224,000 jobs and $289 billion in higher electricity costs through 2030.”

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, echoed the sentiment Monday, adding that “a rule such as the one released today would decrease a family’s disposable income by $3,400 per year and increase their electricity bills by $200.”



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