Going green won't kill jobs during hard times

Bowerbird · Mar 28, 2012

Claims that environmental regulations will worsen unemployment are false. When the economy is struggling, the opposite is true

IN DECEMBER, the Obama administration approved long-overdue environmental regulations requiring US power plants to reduce emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxic metals. The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or air toxics rule, is expected to prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths a year and have many other health benefits. And yet conservative members of Congress oppose it.

Why? Because they say it will "kill jobs". This is a familiar tactic for politicians opposed to any sort of regulation. Conservatives have been scarily disciplined in appending the job-killing label to all regulations, both old and new.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328576.500-going-green-wont-kill-jobs-during-hard-times.html

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