Lisa Jackson: If you don't stop scaring people about massive new taxes, trace amounts of CO2 will cause your grandchildren to die of kidney stones in the midst of a fiery flood during a plague of locusts

EPA chief: ‘All the scare tactics are on the side of industry lobbyists’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is adopting a populist stance as she pushes ahead with first-time greenhouse gas rules, charging that oil and coal lobbyists are using “scare tactics” to protect their financial interests at the public’s expense.
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Jackson lambasted “doomsday” claims about the economic costs of curbing emissions, and efforts to “confuse people” on climate science.

“There are people who would like to defend the status quo because they make money that way. I don’t think it is anyone in Congress. I think it is lobbying groups who represent big interests and the move to clean energy is something that they would prefer not to see this country undertake,” Jackson said.

Jackson, in the interview and an op-ed in The Hill, is also stressing that climate rules would join a long list of Clean Air Act programs that have provided gains that far outweigh the costs. She noted that Clean Air Act programs have led to massive health benefits and show $40 in total benefits for every $1 invested.

“Industry lobbyists have a long and storied history of doomsday scenarios about what EPA actions would mean across the countryside. They have never proven true,” Jackson said, later adding, “All the history and the facts are on the side that this can be done. All the scare tactics are on the side of industry lobbyists.”