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FEATURE: EPA's Utility MACT Is All Pain, No Gain
The Senate is soon to vote on whether to overturn the EPA's Utility MACT, which imposes costly new mercury regulations for coal-fired power plants. The EPA claims the regulations will protect the health of unborn children; but is that true? In a new study, CEI analysts Marlo Lewis, William Yeatman, and David Bier discuss the dubious benefits---and high costs--of the EPA's Utility MACT. Read the study, All Pain and No Gain: The Illusory Benefits of the Utility MACT, here [1]. Also, see:
>> Press release about the study [2]
>> William Yeatman's "The Case Against EPA's Utility MACT (in pictures)" [4]
>> David Bier's op-ed in The Washington Examiner, "EPA's Phony Job Numbers" [5]
SHAPING THE DEBATE
Obama's War on Resource Industries [6]
Myron Ebell's op-ed in The Charleston Daily Mail
The Gathering Storm: Bracing for the Looming Euro Debacle [7]
Bill Frezza's column in Forbes
H.R. 1909 Lifts Barriers to Small Loans [8]
John Berlau's op-ed in NewsMax
Should We Label Genetically-Modified Food? [9]
Greg Conko's interview on Minnesota Public Radio
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Podcast [10]
Ryan Radia's podcast debate for the Federalist Society
Obama Shouldn't Embellish His Small Business Record [11]
Wayne Crews' citation in Bloomberg Businessweek
Mancin, Republicans Fight Mercury Emission Rule [12]
CEI's citation on WVNSTV
DoJ May Put Kibosh on Cable Cos.' Data Caps [13]
Ryan Radia's citation in E-Commerce Times
CEI PODCAST
June 13, 2012: Smarter Transportation Funding [14]
When the federal government gives out transportation funding to the states, they attach a lot of strings. The solution, according to Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner, is to get the federal government out of the transportation business and devolve it to the states. In the just-released CEI study “Fixing Surface Transportation in Massachusetts: A Path Forward under a Devolved Federal Funding Scenario,” Scribner argues that by following a user-pays, user-benefits principle, states can raise revenue and maintain infrastructure more efficiently than the federal government can.
BEST OF THE BLOGS
Remembering Elinor Ostrom [15]
By Fred Smith
Jamie Dimon and the 'Just Fine' Private Sector [16]
By John Berlau
China Takes Hard Stance on EU's Airline Emissions Charges [17]
By Fran Smith
Legislators Seek to Create New, Unnecessary Protected Class: Gun Owners [18]
By Hans Bader
Links:
[1] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fissue-analysis%2Fall-pain-and-no-gain
[2] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcei.org%2Fnews-releases%2Fcei-releases-new-study-all-pain-and-no-gain-illusory-benefits-epas-utility-mact
[3] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Frealspin%2F2012%2F06%2F12%2Fbig-costs-illusory-benefits-why-congress-should-nix-the-utility-mact%2F
[4] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalwarming.org%2F2012%2F06%2F11%2Fthe-case-against-epa-utility-mact-in-pictures%2F
[5] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwashingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fop-eds%2F2012%2F06%2Fepas-phony-job-numbers%2F722356
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[8] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsmax.com%2FJohnBerlau%2FHR-1909-payday-loans-Congress%2F2012%2F06%2F12%2Fid%2F442081
[9] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fminnesota.publicradio.org%2Fdisplay%2Fweb%2F2012%2F06%2F11%2Fdaily-circuit-labeling-gmos-food
[10] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fed-soc.org%2Fpublications%2Fdetail%2Fcyber-intelligence-sharing-and-protection-act-podcast
[11] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Farticles%2F2012-06-08%2Fobama-shouldn-t-embellish-his-small-business-record
[12] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wvnstv.com%2Fstory%2F18772547%2Fmanchin-joins-fight-to-stop-epa-rule-limiting-mercury-emissions
[13] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technewsworld.com%2Fstory%2F75383.html
[14] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertyweek.org%2F2012%2F06%2F13%2Fjune-13-2012-smarter-transportation-funding%2F
[15] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openmarket.org%2F2012%2F06%2F12%2Fremembering-elinor-ostrom%2F
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[18] http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=7724602&msgid=324013&act=2ZYN&c=174876&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openmarket.org%2F2012%2F06%2F13%2Flegislators-seek-to-create-new-unnecessary-protected-class-gun-owners%2F