Apparently she's decided to talk like a Republican for a minute:
“EPA’s rulemakings could have a serious impact on the affordability and reliability of our nation’s energy supply, especially given the sheer number of new regulations the agency has rolled out in such a short time period,” Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Wednesday in a statement.Climate Depot flashes back to a March 4 article in The Daily Telegraph in which the UK power chief says, like North Korea, "we" are going to have to get used to only having intermittent power due to an overtaxed power grid and a new reliance on wind energy, which is only available, of course, when the wind blows.
Now that it has been determined by the EPA that breathing out is dangerous, the forces of government are working against the public.
We have covered the EPA extensively; most interesting is Lisa Perez Jackson, administrator and loneliest cabinet officer as the unpopular EPA administrator. From an earlier post originating in the New York Times:
No other cabinet officer is in as lonely or uncomfortable a position as Ms. Jackson, who has been left, as one adviser put it, behind enemy lines with only science, the law and a small band of loyal lieutenants to support her.And this, also from the NYT:
Although she has not met with the president privately since February, Ms. Jackson said she was confident that he would back her on the tough decisions she had to make. “All of us are mindful that he has a lot of things to do,” she said.
Attacks on her and her agency have become a central part of the Republican playbook, but she said she wanted no sympathy.So we can see how the White House is going to spin this, by claiming that the EPA situation is out of its control. It's not the White House's fault that, in the shadow of the 2012 campaign, its administrator is bankrupting the coal industry and damaging energy resources in this country.
And it's a partisan issue, apparently, if the American people do not want their energy costs to skyrocket. It's a partisan issue, apparently, that the American people would like it if the person who is manipulating regulations n this country would actually meet with the president about what she's doing.
But, then, if our president meets with Trumka, union manipulator (who talks to the "White House" every day and visits at least twice weekly), in the morning before he meets for his morning intelligence briefing, what could we expect?
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