EPA Extends War On Coal - Violates It's Own Policy On Scheduling Greenhouse Gas Regulation Hearings

by Bill Smith: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues progressive agendas and its 'War on Coal.'

During the next year, EPA is expected to release a sweeping regulation on greenhouse gas emissions for existing power plants. However, to do so the EPA must hold hearings. Well, the agency has begun a series of faux listening sessions to get public input. Oddly, or as expected - intentionally, no hearings will take place in states where electricity generation from coal is the highest.

For example, there will be no hearings in West Virginia (95% of electricity from coal), Kentucky (92%), Wyoming (88%), Indiana (84%), Missouri (83%), Utah (81%), North Dakota (78%),  Ohio (71%), Nebraska (71%) or New Mexico (68%). However, there will be hearings in places like Washington, D.C. (0%), San Francisco, CA (1%), Seattle (4%) and New York City (4%) which get tiny portions of electricity from coal.

How representative will these listening sessions be? What is clear is that the EPA has deliberately opted to violate its own policy on where they hold public meetings. It's policy reads:"When the subject of a public hearing, meeting or other information exchange process relates to conditions or facilities in a specific geographic area, EPA should hold the public hearing or meeting in that general geographic area."The hearings should have been held in areas most affected, not least affected,  by these 'war on coal' regulations,  It’s critical that all affected parties be able to give their input to the agency. It is time for Americans to tell the EPA, enough is enough.  Sean Hackbarth has the story on Free Enterprise.com.

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