Speech at 2015 CPAC conference: on Environment

Bill Flores: Attack EPA ozone standards and power plant caps

Flores attacked the EPA, particularly its proposed ozone standards and carbon pollution cap on power plants. But Flores never mentioned the economic benefits of improving public health by cutting coal pollution and shifting to clean energy. Those tend to outnumber the cost: The EPA's climate rules on power plants could save $55 billion per year by 2030, versus $9 billion in costs.

Flores's other points are hardly worth arguing: If climate change is junk science, then 97% of scientists are part of the ploy. Yet these facts fail the "smell test," Flores claims. He might try living next to an unregulated coal plant to see what that smells like.