Environmental group praising new EPA power plant rule secretly consulted with the agency
by Jon E. Dougherty
(Freedom.news) In what appears
to be a classic case of collusion, emails exchanged between an
environmental consulting firm that is supporting controversial new
regulations limiting power plant emissions helped build support for them
by working behind the scenes with senior Environmental Protection
Agency officials.
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the firm – M.J.
Bradley & Associates – recently released a study on carbon emissions
from existing power plants in which the firm declared one of most
troubling of the new regulations viable and sound. The firm concluded in
its supposedly non-partisan, dispassionate study that the EPA
regulations are “very achievable,” a key measurement in determining
their viability in the face of ongoing legal battles with more than two
dozen states.
“This comprehensive analysis shows that, by various pathways, the
Clean Power Plan’s carbon pollution reduction goals are very
achievable,” Christopher Van Atten, a vice president at the firm, said of the study, the WFB reported.
