In June 2014, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said the Clean Power Plan, which the Obama administrationfinalized earlier this month, “is about environmental justice … because lower-income families and communities of color are hardest hit.” Why, then, is the EPA enacting standards that adversely affect minorities? Last week, McCarthy similarly remarked, “We know that low-income minority communities would be hardest hit.” But there was one important distinction: She wasn’t referring to environmental hazards but the plan itself. In other words, the EPA’s massive power grab, which ostensibly “is about environmental justice,” instead hurts those it’s supposedly intended to protect. That’s not the surprising part — independent studies have already warned about the consequences. What’s surprising is hearing the head of Barack Obama’s EPA admit it.
McCarthy counters by arguing that consumers will see substantial savings by 2030 and that the government intends to help minorities neutralize the initial impacts by giving states that invest in new and upcoming energy efficiency programs a 2-for-1 federal credit. But as The Daily Signal’s Nicolas Loris writes, existing energy efficiency programs have failed to live up to expectations.
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Yet another example of how democrat liberals really feel about blacks.
ReplyDeleteIt's absolutely beyond me why black folk keep voting for these people. What does it get them? Things get worse every time they vote another one in.
What has Elijah Cummings actually done for the black community besides huff and puff?
How about Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel?
How about Obama?
They are ALL part of the elitist machine. They are all filling their pockets and living the high life while the communities they claim to serve rot.
Anything that raises the cost of living, whether it's rent, groceries, electric, or gas, is obviously going to negatively affect lower income people more harshly. But why tack on "and communities of color"? This means that "people of color", regardless of income level, are as negatively affected as the poor of any color:
ReplyDeleteWhat?
Is there a "black tax" or something, where they pay more? Kind of ridiculous.