EPA Rules on People Killing Mercury and Arsenic Emissions not a Jobs Killer too. Just the opposite.

From the Economic Policy Institute are these eye opening revelations that no Republican would dare acknowledge. In fact, their opposition to the rules says that they would rather kill people than supposedly kill jobs. The EPA rules would actually create jobs.

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the “air toxics rule” – a regulation mandating the reduction of toxic emissions (including mercury and arsenic) from the nation’s power plants, This information makes clear that with benefits exceeding costs by at least 5-to-1, the rule is well worth doing – with up to 17,000 lives saved per year after its implementation and 850,000 additional days of work added to the economy because workers are healthier and would require fewer sick days.

Opponents of the act predictably characterized the air toxics rule as a “job-killer.”

Our own earlier research, based on the information provided with the proposed rule, indicated that it would lead to roughly 92,000 net new jobs by 2015. The nature of this estimate is likely to apply to the final rule as well. To be clear, this rule isn’t a significant jobs policy that would put a large dent in the current unemployment crisis.