EPA Chief: CO2 Regulations Are About ‘Justice’ For ‘Communities Of Color’

[flowers]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/27/epa-chief-co2-regulations-are-about-justice-for-communities-of-color/

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed global warming regulations aren’t just about stemming global temperature rises — according to agency’s chief, they are also about “justice” for “communities of color.”

“Carbon pollution standards are an issue of justice,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in a teleconference call with environmental activists. “If we want to protect communities of color, we need to protect them from climate change.”

McCarthy is referring to the EPA’s proposed rule that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. The agency says the rule will not only help fight global warming, but will also improve public health as coal-fired power plants are shuttered. McCarthy, however, put special emphasis on how the rule would reduce asthma rates, which affect African-American children.

“Asthma disproportionately affects African-American kids,” McCarthy added. “In just the first year these standards go into effect, we’ll avoid up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks — and those numbers go up from there.”

“These standards are also doing more than to just address public health. By the time these standards are fully in place in 2030, the average household will also save $8 a month on electricity and create thousands of jobs that can’t be shipped overseas,” McCarthy said.

The teleconference was hosted by the environmental group Green For All. The group bills itself as an outreach organization seeking to educate “communities of color” about fighting global warming. But Green For All also describes itself as “radical enough to push a deeply justice-based agenda.”

[GourmetDan]

CO2 is now a 'racist' gas.  Tell us some more lies, boys.  We just love being lied to. 

Well... those of us who can still recognize a lie, that is...

[andy58-in-nh]

If CO₂ is a racist gas, then minorities are only hurting themselves by breathing it.
 
It is becoming increasingly difficult to chart the depth of stupidity in our culture, or the intellectual depravity that informs our government functionaries.

[Fishrrman]

GormetDan wrote above:
[[ CO2 is now a 'racist' gas.  Tell us some more lies, boys.  We just love being lied to. 
Well... those of us who can still recognize a lie, that is...]]

Time for an Orwell quote, again:
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."