EPA Regulations Will Directly Impact You - Send Your Comment To The EPA

Rob Engstrom, U.S. Chamber of Commerce: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a series of hearings last week on its controversial effort to impose sweeping new regulations on carbon emissions. This unprecedented wave of regulations on affordable energy will result in higher electricity bills, fewer jobs, and slower economic growth.

If you weren’t one of the 1,600 people who attended one of the hearings held in Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh, or Washington, D.C. last week, it’s critical that you still make your voice heard.

Think the EPA regulations won’t directly impact you? Think again. Here are a few things you need to know about the EPA’s massive regulatory overreach and attack on affordable energy:

• By the EPA’s own estimates, the regulations will impose nationwide electricity cost increases by 6-7% and up to 12% in some locations.
• Rising electricity costs will place America’s job creators at a disadvantage with foreign competitors, forcing more businesses and jobs to move overseas.
• EPA projects annual compliance costs between $5.4 and $7.4 billion in 2020, rising up to $8.8 billion in 2030.
• The regulations will decrease reliability in our energy supply and increase the potential for blackouts at times Americans rely on electricity the most.
• The regulations will impose billions in costs on the U.S. economy and threaten thousands of jobs. And for what? Upon full implementation in 2030, global carbon emissions will only be reduced by a mere 1.3% -- the equivalent of just 13.5 days of emissions from China.

Despite the magnitude, cost, and incredible complexity of the EPA’s proposal, the agency plans to finalize and implement the regulations on a rushed and arbitrary timeline after only four public hearings, limited review of the proposal, and a brief 120-day comment period.

We can only stand up to the EPA’s job-killing regulations if we make our voices heard.

It will only take a minute of your time. Will you add your name?

Click here to weigh in with the EPA and demand additional public hearings, an extended comment period, comprehensive analysis by independent organizations, and additional time for states to review the proposal.

This is your chance to have a say in sweeping regulations that will impact entire communities, threaten our energy supply, increase electricity bills, and cost jobs and economic growth.

We also encourage you to personalize the comments to tell the EPA how these regulations will directly impact you, your family, and your community.

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