EPA’s Clean Energy Plan

Here’s an article whose message is simple: the political rhetoric surrounding energy is often misleading.  I’m not sure that’s exactly news, but that’s the take-away nonetheless.

In this case, a guy with ties to the fossil fuel business, Koch Industries to be specific, wrote an op-ed in a newspaper in Utah telling seniors that the EPA’s Clean Energy Plan will cause skyrocketing electricity prices and offer no benefit.  The article is a refutation of all this, including a concept that I would have hoped was too obvious to require presenting: some seniors have trouble breathing, and, for that reason alone, there is great value for them (and everyone else) in replacing coal-fired power plants with renewable energy.