Koch-affiliated group compares EPA regulations to CIA’s use of torture (Salon)

The American Energy Alliance (AEA), the Koch-affiliated non-profit that’s lately been busying itself attacking wind energy credits, often deceptively so, is now resorting to comparing Environmental Protection Agency regulations to the CIA torture report:

.@EPA is raising energy costs, crushing small businesses and killing jobs by the day. http://t.co/s0GjcovcK4 pic.twitter.com/3ibEzcZoTf
— Am. Energy Alliance (@AEA) December 15, 2014

“Whether it’s the costliest regulation in history or the coal-killing power plant rules (that Obama’s law professor says raise “constitutional questions”),” a caption provided at the AEA’s website reads, “it’s clear that the CIA isn’t the only government agency engaged in torture.”

And the kicker: “At least the CIA isn’t torturing Americans.”

Aside from having the audacity to equate regulations aimed at improving public health and mitigating dangerous climate change to the shocking revelations made last week about the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the cartoon manages to pack in the usual lies and misinformation. Among them are the idea that EPA regulations are expensive job-killers: one analysis, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, instead finds that the agency’s efforts to limit carbon pollution from power plants could save U.S. households and businesses $37.4 billion per year on electricity bills while creating 274,000 jobs.

Link: http://www.salon.com/2014/12/15/koch_affiliated_group_compares_epa_regulations_to_cia_torture_report/