Killing Us Softly | FrontPage Magazine

To the delight of radical environmentalists, a major source of energy to generate electricity is being threatened by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On Oct. 15, the EPA regional administrator for the country’s mid-Atlantic area, Shawn Garvin, urged his agency to revoke a permit for America’s largest “mountaintop,” or surface, coal mine site. This action forecasts higher electricity bills–just as President Obama himself warned of in 2008. Other industries also are at risk of arbitrary EPA action."