Based on these and other dubious claims, the EPA issued rules shutting down hundreds of coal-fired power plants and preventing new ones from being built. Then it said the regulations will bring “ancillary” health benefits from general air pollution reductions, beyond the nearly 90% reduction in unhealthy U.S. emissions since 1970, even as coal-based electricity more than doubled.

Next, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy (pictured at left) said her new “Clean Power Plan” isn’t really about pollution control. It’s an “investment strategy,” to encourage renewables by making fossil fuel use increasingly expensive or legally impossible, and justifying more taxpayer billions to subsidize wind, solar and biofuel energy.

Now…