Charleston Editorial Compares EPA Plan to Colonial Policies

The Charleston Daily Mail, in an editorial, applauded the 20 governors who told Congress in a letter that in preparing to regulate CO2, EPA had failed to consider the potential impact on the U.S. economy. The Daily Mail quoted the letter as saying that EPA was "not equipped to consider the very real potential for economic harm when regulating emissions. Without that consideration, regulation will place heavy administrative burdens on state environmental quality agencies, will be costly to consumers and could be devastating to the economy and jobs."

The editorial compared the impending EPA action with policies of Britain before the American Revolution: "The idea that a small group of federal bureaucrats in the nation's capital can--without any input from the representatives of the public--make such huge decisions so cavalierly is exactly why the 13 colonies rebelled some 235 years ago. The slogan then was no taxation without representation. Today, the cry should be no regulation without representation. The governors speak for their people's interests and from their experiences in the real world. Congressmen need to stand up as well, or constituents will find new people who do."