Attorney General Roy Cooper: Siding With Washington, D.C. And Punishing North Carolina Families With Higher Utility Bills | Eastern NC Now

EPA Regulations Would Kill Jobs, Increase Utility Bills

• "... the state's economy will lose 32,120 jobs by 2030" (Brian Balfour, "EPA Rules to Cost NC Tens of Thousands of Jobs, Drive Up Electricity Costs," Civitas Institute, 1/28/2015)
• "total real disposable income would fall by $3.5 billion" (Brian Balfour, "EPA Rules to Cost NC Tens of Thousands of Jobs, Drive Up Electricity Costs," Civitas Institute, 1/28/2015)
• "Moreover, annual investment in the state would decline by $448 million by 2030." (Brian Balfour, "EPA Rules to Cost NC Tens of Thousands of Jobs, Drive Up Electricity Costs," Civitas Institute, 1/28/2015)

• "EPA regulations on carbon would eliminate an average of $155 billion a year in gross domestic product through 2030" (Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D and David Kreutzer, Ph.d, "The Obama Administration's Climate Agenda: Underestimated Costs and Exaggerated Benefits, Chart 2, The Heritage Foundation, 11/13/14)

Roy Cooper Sides With Washington, D.C. Over North Carolina

• "McCrory's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is bringing the lawsuit, rather than the state's Attorney General, who normally represents the state. NC Attorney General Roy Cooper has declined to support the challenge to the [EPA rules]." (Blog: "NC takes EPA to court," NC League of Conservation Voters, 11/2/2015)

• "Attorney General Roy Cooper has warned leaders in the General Assembly that resisting new federal clean-air regulations poses legal and environmental concerns" (Craig Jarvis, "Cooper warns against opposing new EPA carbon rules," The News & Observer, 8/11/2015)

• Since 2011 through October 2015, lawmakers have been forced to spend $7 million in legal fees defending North Carolina where Roy Cooper chooses not too (Tyler Dukes, "As attorney general, GOP clash, spending on private lawyers skyrocketing," WRAL-TV, 1/25/2016)

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