Investor's Business Daily published an Aug. 12 op-ed with the headline: “EPA Regulations Are 'Jim Crow' Laws Of 21st Century.” The op-ed, written by a senior fellow at the oil-funded Heartland Institute, attacked the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan -- which places the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants -- as harmful to minorities. To make his case, the author cited a National Black Chamber of Commerce study that relies on several thoroughly debunked studies and climate science denial. The op-ed also cited conservative author Deneen Borelli, who called the EPA climate plan “the green movement's new Jim Crow.” 

From the op-ed: 

EPA Regulations Are 'Jim Crow' Laws Of 21st Century 

In announcing EPA's new so-called “Clean Power Plan” regulations, President Obama repeatedly told us that by restricting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the plan would “cut carbon pollution.” But that repeated phrase “carbon pollution” reveals fundamental, disqualifying ignorance. 

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As a new report from the National Black Chamber of Commerce documents, EPA's new regulatory requirements will result in estimated job losses reaching 7 million for blacks and 12 million for Hispanics, with the poverty rate increasing by more than 23% for blacks and 26% for Hispanics. 

That's because the rules will ultimately more than double the cost of natural gas and electricity, adding over $1 trillion to family and business energy bills. 

“A lot of people on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are going to die,” says Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. African-American author Dineen Borelli calls EPA's overregulation “the green movement's new Jim Crow.” National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford calls the EPA's regulatory overkill “a slap in the face to poor and minority families.” 

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Previously: 

National Black Chamber Of Commerce Joins Oil Industry's Op-Ed Campaign Against EPA Climate Plan

Media Disclosure Guide: Here Are The Industry-Funded Groups Attacking The EPA's Climate Plan