by Michael Bastasch
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted
her agency’s signature regulation aimed at tackling global warming was
meant to show “leadership” rather than actually curb projected warming.
McCarthy admitted as much after being questioned by West
Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley, who pressed the EPA chief on
why the Obama administration was moving forward with
economically-damaging regulations that do nothing for the environment.
“I don’t understand,” McKinley said in a Tuesday hearing. “If it
doesn’t have an impact on climate change around the world, why are we
subjecting our hard working taxpayers and men and women in the coal
fields to something that has no benefit?”
“We see it as having had enormous benefit in showing sort of domestic
leadership as well as garnering support around the country for the
agreement we reached in Paris,” McCarthy responded.
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