Mitt Romney threatening to close a coal plant in Massachusetts. Claimed it was “killing people.”

seewg:

Mitt Romney attacking the Salem coal plant in 2004 .(2003). This is kind of an amazing video. In my econ classes, the Salem coal plant (still going, btw.) was the persistent example of the type of out-dated, and inefficient technology that would be the first to go under a cap & trade policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions. New rules making their way through the EPA process will (probably) finally shut-down that plant (though, interestingly, not the greenhouse gas rules, since those will only apply to new power plants).

(hat tip: climate progress)