Part of the claimed reason for the EPA seeking to kill the Clean Power Plan is the standard Republican argument against unfair or burdensome regulation in favor of the free market.
However, it seems to me that it wasn't a free market for coal before and the CPP actually made it closer to free market principles. The negative environmental and health impacts from the burned coal emissions is part of the cost of their business is it not? Previously this cost was paid for by the taxpayers or by increased healthcare costs for individuals. The CPP put some of that cost back onto the company.
Any of our resident Republicans care to enlighten me?
However, it seems to me that it wasn't a free market for coal before and the CPP actually made it closer to free market principles. The negative environmental and health impacts from the burned coal emissions is part of the cost of their business is it not? Previously this cost was paid for by the taxpayers or by increased healthcare costs for individuals. The CPP put some of that cost back onto the company.
Any of our resident Republicans care to enlighten me?
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