From the Heritage Foundation.
Excerpt:
It was sadly ironic that Texas energy company Luminant announced it would lay off 500 employees on the same morning that President Obama unveiled legislation designed to promote job growth. The company said that a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency will force it to cease operations at two electricity generating plants, and close three coal mines.
?We have hundreds of employees who have spent their entire professional careers at Luminant and its predecessor companies,? Luminant CEO David Campbell said in a news release. ?At every step of this process, we have tried to minimize these impacts, and it truly saddens me that we are being compelled to take the actions we?ve announced today.?
The company cited the EPA?s new cross-state pollution rule as the impetus for the decision, and noted that it had worked to identify other means of reducing emissions, but that ?meeting this unrealistic deadline also forces us to take steps that will idle facilities and result in the loss of jobs,? Campbell said.
Campbell also announced that the company has filed a lawsuit against the EPA in an effort ?to achieve [EPA emissions] goals without harming critically important Texas jobs and electric reliability.? The suit seeks to block the cross-state pollution rule for Texas companies, and to grant a stay to Texas companies to prevent them from having to comply with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions standards by the existing January 1, 2012 deadline.
Can we afford to lose jobs in a recession?
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