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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Climatistas Forced to Abandon Their Own BS

Steven Hayward

In my Weekly Standard article out today on the EPA’s so-called “Clean Power Plan,” I note one of the more curious and significant changes from the original draft rule of a year ago and the final rule released on Monday of this week: namely that the fourth “building block” for state compliance—energy conservation/efficiency measures—was dropped from the rule. Here’s the key part of the argument as summarized in the article:

This change involves environmentalists having to undergo an embarrassing about-face and recognize that one of their favorite slogans isn’t true. For years environmentalists have promoted energy conservation measures for buildings and homes with the claim that such improvements “paid for themselves” and were more cost-effective than building new power plants……But there’s a growing body of economic research going back more than 15 years that finds the conservation claims to be exaggerated, when they are not completely wrong……

 So guess who latched on to this analysis? Environmentalists! Because they had to confront that their own favorite talking point could undermine their drive to kill coal. But it also offers more evidence (as if more is necessary) that environmentalists will simply lie or at the very least ignore any evidence that gets in the way of their clichés and near-term goals. “Conservation” was great when you could use it to oppose any new power plants at all, but not so great if it might impede your drive to kill coal.....To Read More....

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