White House, EPA Ignore Small Business Administration's Report That New Coal Regulations Will Kill Jobs

The Daily Caller reports:

President Barack Obama is ignoring heated concerns from within his own administration that new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on the coal industry are economically devastating.

The EPA is plowing forward with new Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) mandates on the coal industry. The new regulations would force coal energy plants to install new giant scrubber-like materials in their smokestacks to capture carbon particles before they enter the atmosphere. Carbon captured in this way is then made innocuous through a chemical process.