Bureaucratic Flimflam: Environmental Edition

Like a stage magician performing sleight of hand before an unsuspecting audience, politicians and bureaucrats frequently engage in misdirection. Case in point: the federal Environmental Protection Agency. As Independent Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II and Utah State University colleague Michael Jensen reveal in the Detroit News, the EPA touts its proposed Clean Power Plan as a flexible and fair tool for dealing with climate change. Pull back the curtain, however, and you'll see that the EPA's publicists slyly direct the public's attention away from two essentials: the exceedingly high cost of the coal regulation and the exceedingly low benefit....... To Read More......