The Patriot Post® · McCarthy: EPA Power Grab Is to Protect Minorities

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy recently introduced the Clean Power Plan proposal, a mess of regulations that would deal a huge blow to the power industry and the entire economy if enacted. But according to McCarthy, this latest power grab is intended to protect minorities. “Carbon pollution standards are an issue of justice,” she recently told a group of eco-alarmists. “If we want to protect communities of color, we need to protect them from climate change.” McCarthy added, “Asthma disproportionately affects African-American kids. In just the first year these standards go into effect, we’ll avoid up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks – and those numbers go up from there.” How anyone could possibly make that calculation is beyond us, but suffice to say – given the science community’s abysmal track record concerning “climate change” predictions – we aren’t holding our breath. Ultimately it’s the attack on the energy sector that will do more harm than good, especially if the prediction of a frigid winter becomes reality. More…