Pathetic.
Via Daily Caller:
The White House is using children’s health to defend new federal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
The proposal has come under attack from opponents who seek to highlight the high economic costs of the rule.
“There’s no doubt there are some states where this is an issue that presents a different sort of political challenges, particularly coal-producing states, and there’s no doubt the polluters will come after this rule and they’ll try to attack it,” White House senior adviser John Podesta said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor Friday morning.
“They’ll try to put it squarely in the context of political campaigns that are ongoing in 2014,” Podesta said. “But I think anyone who wants to go out and talk about the benefits of this rule … they’ll find the politics is such you can defend taking action here and the public will support that.”
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants 30 percent by 2030. The rule has been vigorously attacked by some states, Republicans and the coal industry for setting the stage for skyrocketing electricity costs and huge job losses.