Ron Paul Votes to Kill Americans

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) plans to force a vote on his resolution to nix a recently finalized Environmental Protection Agency rule that mandates cuts in power plant air pollution that blows across state lines."

"EPA estimates that the Cross-State measure will prevent up to 34,000 premature deaths, 15,000 nonfatal heart attacks, 19,000 cases of acute bronchitis, 400,000 cases of aggravated asthma, and 1.8 million sick days annually beginning in 2014, according to an agency summary."

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/191717-overnight-energy

EPA Regs Save Lives and Create Jobs

"Much of the bill is based on the premise that regulatory uncertainty is preventing businesses from creating jobs, yet even Bruce Bartlett, an advisor to Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush, agrees there is no hard evidence to support those claims."

Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/illinois/durbin-republican-jobs-bill-guts-regulations-but-comes-up-empty-on-job-creation/#ixzz1cxZTyCVl

Solution to All

As the article below points out, the right is trying to sell our health to professional polluters again.  Nothing new there.  If you are opposed to reps on either side of congress legislating in favor of large donors, please go here and sign your support:
http://www.getmoneyout.com/

Now that the corporate campaign issue is solved let's get back to our all problems solution to everything.

First, pollution corporations are among the few entities on the planet making more money than ever and are stock piling their money because they are, "afraid of regulation".  So let's help them and Us out.  Let the EPA work.  Now is the perfect time, in every way, to have these corps step up and make their operations safer for Us and our children.  Of course this would also create jobs as making stuff cleaner demands new technology, design, installation, operation and all the jobs supporting these industries.  The polluter comes away with a better image, healthier workers and a happier community.  Who is the loser here?  Just the lobbyists?  We can live with that.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/185007-the-week-ahead-

Health and Economy

"In his letter, Cook said one of the primary functions of a government is to ensure that its people enjoy a clean and healthy environment, and responding to the current frenzy of ideology- and profit-motivated demands to severely limit the funding and powers of the Environmental Protection Agency would cripple the agency’s ability fill that role. Instead, Cook called on the Super Committee to target a number of misguided and outdated programs and subsidies that result in environmental damage and increased health risks."

http://www.ewg.org/release/shortchanging-human-health-and-environment-won-t-trim-swollen-deficit

Corporate Support for EPA Regulation

"[Clean air rules] began with President Nixon, when he signed the Clean Air Act in 1970. They were strengthened by President H.W. Bush, after the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 were passed by 89 senators and 410 representatives. These laws enable the EPA to establish new limits on pollution whenever science reveals they are necessary."

"Clean Air Act standards generated approximately $1.3 trillion in public health and environmental benefits in 2010 alone for a cost of $50 billion. The ratio of benefits to costs is more than 26 to 1."

"...implementing just one set of standards—CAIR Phase I—since 2003 has created an estimated 200,000 jobs in the air pollution control industry."

From:
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/gop_repackages_old_attacks_on.html

"Last December, seven CEOs of leading utilities, including PG&E, Exelon, and Constellation, wrote a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal called “We’re Okay with the EPA’s New Air-Quality Regulations.” The authors wrote: The electric sector has known that these rules were coming. Many companies, including ours, have already invested in modern air-pollution control technologies and cleaner and more efficient power plants…Contrary to the claims that the EPA’s agenda will have negative economic consequences, our companies’ experience complying with air quality regulations demonstrates that regulations can yield important economic benefits, including job creation, while maintaining reliability."

EPA Requires Big Coal to Cut Poison in Your Air

"Those proposals could require plants to:
- Reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic chemicals, gases that cause ozone pollution, and greenhouse gases.
- Dispose of coal ash under EPA guidelines for hazardous waste...."


from:
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/182176/2/New-rules-could-mean-big-changes-for-coal-plants

"The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said industry studies warning of a train wreck overstated some of the costs and didn't address the benefits. The biggest impacts will be on plants more than 40 years old that never installed state-of-the art pollution controls. The Congressional Research Service said that many of those plants are inefficient and are already being replaced by more efficient plants fired partly by natural gas."