With the Utility MACT’s Dec. 16 deadline rapidly approaching, there’s not much time left to tell your legislator how you feel about higher costs and a worse economy.
A few weeks ago, Behind the Plug ran a short series on five MACT Facts.Take a look at our five posts outlining the damaging impact of the proposed Utility MACT rule.
- MACT Fact #1: Utility MACT is Expensive – The proposed rule is the most expensive rule that the EPA has ever written for coal-fueled power plants.
- MACT Fact #2: Utility MACT Ignores Current Investment – Coal-fueled power plants have already invested almost $100 billion to significantly reduce emissions without new EPA rules, and will invest $125 billion through 2015 to reduce emissions.
- MACT Fact #3: The EPA has Ignored Negative Effects of Utility MACT – The EPA has stated that the agency did not consider job losses due to higher energy prices, and doesn’t fully understand the effects of this rule.
- MACT Fact #4: Utility MACT is Harmful to the National Economy – Combined with other EPA regulations, Utility MACT would cost the country 183,000 jobs annually, among other things.
- MACT Fact #5: Utility MACT is Hard on States – Twenty-five states with Democrat and Republican governors are concerned that the EPA is not considering how increasing electricity rates and threatening reliability would impact each state’s economy.
Now’s the time to tell the EPA to slow down. Write your legislator.
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