This morning, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy trumpeted a pantload of new regulations on power plants, designed to combat climate change and fight for “environmental justice,” whatever the hell that is:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShannonBream\/status\/473476034277695488\n
“Critics claim.” Is that like “Republicans say”<\/a>?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShannonBream\/status\/473476355561373696\n Riiiiight.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShannonBream\/status\/473476644477628416\n EPA to the rescue!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hmfearny\/status\/473476588043247616\n Higher bills? Who said anything about higher bills? Oh:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BrianFaughnan\/status\/473476491700080640\n Well, according to McCarthy, it’s not going to hit any families any harder than, say, the price of milk:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EvanMcSan\/status\/473476165500272640\n Guess we’ve got nothing to worry about.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/473477440409722880\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/murgatr0id\/status\/473477796992675840\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Me_In_Jersey\/status\/473477748863037441\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JeffersonTeaPar\/status\/473477572919963648\n Don’t worry, McCarthy reassures us. We really will reap the benefits of this climate action. Eventually:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hmfearny\/status\/473476668921638913\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hmfearny\/status\/473477328773734402\n You know, we can’t help but think these promises of huge savings down the road sound awfully familiar … wonder why that is:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RBPundit\/status\/473476898505625600\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GFVAMom\/status\/473477978811531264\n Let’s face it: We’re getting screwed again.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RBPundit\/status\/473477916316422144\n Yep:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/473478824101830657\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gabrielmalor\/status\/473480596644462592\n If the government insists on taking action, then here’s one action we could totally get behind:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/473476792217796608 Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/06\/02\/just-like-obamacare-epa-admin-says-costly-new-regs-will-save-consumers-big-bucks-later-on\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sarahrstevenson\/status\/473478107957972993 This morning, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy trumpeted a pantload of new regulations on power plants, designed to combat climate change and fight for “environmental justice,” whatever the hell that is: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShannonBream\/status\/473476034277695488 “Critics claim.” Is that like “Republicans say”? http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShannonBream\/status\/473476355561373696 Riiiiight. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ShannonBream\/status\/473476644477628416 EPA to the rescue! http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hmfearny\/status\/473476588043247616 Higher bills? Who said anything about higher bills? … Continue reading Just like O-care! EPA admin says costly new regs will save consumers big bucks later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":70593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[42002,4874,42001],"class_list":["post-70592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-energy-bills","tag-epa","tag-shannon-bream"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/15813063665897-screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-9-54-53-am.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}