When President Trump announced last week he was rolling back greenhouse-gas emission cuts, Janet Mills saw a moment.
But the problem with the Democrat governor’s foot-stomping temper tantrum is its all theater, similar to her embarrassing famous White House meltdown over boys in girls sports.
Mills is 40 points behind Graham Platner in their U.S. Senate primary race so she needs a good straight man.
But Trump won’t work because Janet’s tirade isn’t supported by the facts.
Though Trump overturned the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the emissions were already being reduced by competition from natural-gas and other clean-energy suppliers.
The federal emission standards have “done very little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Jeff Holmstead, a former top EPA official, tells Axios national energy reporter Amy Harder.
A New York research firm projects that without EPA restrictions, U.S. emissions in 2035 would still be up to 35 percent below 2005 levels.
If the rules were intact, the decline would be marginally different, 38 percent – not nearly as drastic as Janet complained without so much as a gut check by her favorite secret-campaign consultant, the editor of the liberal Portland Press Herald.
The paper used its Sunday edition to trumpet Janet’s environmental Armageddon screech.
“I will never back down from taking action to combat climate pollution to protect our people, our environment and the future of our children,” Mills said.
Then she promised to soon close the primary source of Maine’s noxious, rhetorical, hot-air liberal gas…
Janet’s Sky-Is-Falling Freakout Over Trump Gas-Emissions Rule Is Just A Hot-Air Campaign Ploy
By Ted Cohen
