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Newsweek’s piece on President Obama’s EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, has a telling title that summarizes the Obama administration’s energy policy: “Regulate, Baby, Regulate.”  After all, it was just last week the administration continued its war on Appalachia with strict new mining regulations, and as the Newsweek article reports, the Obama administration remains intent on pushing backdoor regulations through the EPA to encompass the entire economy, even though “the Nixon-era Clean Air Act was never intended to regulate” carbon dioxide.

Obama has consistently used his “green jobs” agenda as a smokescreen for his job-killing regulations. But as Newsweek reports, there are serious doubts about Obama’s economic diagnosis.

Green-tech workers—people who do things like design and build wind turbines or solar panels—now make up only 0.6 percent of the American workforce. McKinsey figures that clean energy won't command much more of the total job market in the years ahead.

Unfortunately, Obama is still committed to ignoring the economic consequences and bipartisan opposition to his harsh EPA regulations. We wish that the Obama administration focused as much on jobs instead of their job-killing regulations - maybe then we’d have some acceptable economic news.