EPA Chief Admits Climate Regulations Will Severely Harm Poor Minorities


The EPA Chief said it directly: “We know that low-income minority communities would be hardest hit”

The chief environmental regulator in the United States had some blunt words of reality regarding the administration’s climate change regulations.

The Clean Power Plan that will require drastic cuts in 47 states’ carbon dioxide emissions – consequently shifting America’s energy economy away from affordable, reliable coal to spotty, unreliable and expensive sources – will adversely impact poor, minority families the most.

When speaking about the higher energy prices caused by the administration’s climate regulations on power plants, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said, “We know that low-income minority communities would be hardest hit.”

Read it all here.

McCarthy downplayed that fact by saying any minimal higher prices would be offset by implementing energy efficiency

 

 

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