EPA: Jobs? Who cares?
By Brian Kirwin | Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 | PolicyNice exchange about the Environmental Protection Agency, courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
After Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., asked whether an EPA economic analysis of new coal ash regulations took into account potential job losses, Stanislaus replied: “Not directly, no.” Gardner then followed up: “Is it standard procedure for an economic analysis to ignore the impact on jobs?” Stanislaus could only manage the following in return: “Well I can get back to you on the specific details of how we do economic analysis.”
It’s been weeks, apparently, and not a peep from the EPA.
Hey Obama? Do jobs matter to you?
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9 Responses to "EPA: Jobs? Who cares?"
Here’s the exchange between Rep Gardner and EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus, it is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHlWdZgJcRY
It lasts the whole five minutes.
Stanislaus seems to have a cavalier attitude about it all with his arm draped over the adjacent chair as Rep. Gardner ties him in knots. This demonstrates that the EPA has top cover from Obama where they are implementing his executive orders with impunity through regulation and no oversight from Congress.
Someone please clarify why President Obama or even the EPA needs to be blamed for this. The EPA is responding to a court decision that mandates they must respond to CO2 emissions as being a pollutant under existing law. If there is unhappiness with this decision, the manner to correct it is to pass legislation that modifies the law in the legislature and get President Obama to sign it (or override the veto).
In the mean time, it almost looks like the EPA is doing the bare minimum necessary to conform with the requirements of the court decision.
LD, I think the fact that they did an economic analysis and didn’t factor jobs says a lot about where the American people stand with this administration.
You’re not buying this bullcrap are you? They’re destroying our economy so a salamander can get his lawyer and sue you for civil rights. It’s laughable if it wasn’t true.
Hopefully, America can make it another 1.5 years so we can vote him out. This is disasterous.
So Brian, your position is that if an oil company were to gush 1″ of oil over the entire Chesapeake Bay that we should thank them for the jobs they created to clean it up? I thought the EPA was created to protect the environnment. Did I miss an announcement?
Mike, if Obama was improving the economy, maybe even you would be too busy during business hours to comment on blogs.
The private sector is improving the economy; I only comment between business deals.
You naysayers are beginning to sound like Donald Trump. If you can’t get Obama on the birth certificate you will try to get Obama on his collage grades. Can’t you guys stick to the important issues like jobs, the budget and entitlements.
Sorry, but when I went grad school, an economic analysis that did not address loss or creation of employment would have gotten you a failing grade (as well as a little public humiliation from the professor when he returned the papers in class).
Mike, the fact that a proposed course of action will cause job losses does not trump that COA as being viable. It just has to be given appropriate consideration in the cost-benefit analysis. For example, cancelling an over-budget, ineffective weapon system will most certainly cause job losses and is addressed in the EA. But that doesn’t mean that we won’t cancel the system.
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