Sen. Baldwin and U.S. Reps. Pocan, Kind and Moore: Your president is a job-killer.

The MacIver Institute reports:

New research from the Heritage Foundation shows that proposed  regulations, set to take hold January 2015, would hit Wisconsin’s manufacturing jobs the hardest.

If the new regulations go into effect, Wisconsin would stand to lose 11,702 manufacturing jobs. The state’s congressional districts would lose 1,463 jobs on average by 2023, the largest average in the nation. The sixth congressional district would lose an estimated 2,000 jobs.

The EPA regulations will limit the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for future power plants and will later create new regulations for existing plants.

Newly constructed power plants run by coal will have a limit of 1,100 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour, a significant cut to the average plant that emits nearly 1,800 CO2 per megawatt hour.

New standards for existing power plants are expected to be released by June of this year.

Manufacturing will be hit particularly hard for several reasons.

1. As coal production is reduced, they must find a way to make up for lost supply.
2. Fuel switching to natural gas to make up for lost coal will increase the gas prices 28 percent by 2030.
3. These regulations will force new plants to install carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology to turn coal into gas, creating a huge cost burden on the industry. …

Here is a breakdown of the total jobs that would be lost in each state:

Wisconsin has eight Congressional districts, three of them represented by Democrats. Broken down by Congressional district, Wisconsin goes from 10th to …

… number one. That’s more than 4,000 jobs that will be lost in Congressional districts represented by Democrats. Milwaukee has, for now, a lot of manufacturing. Even Madison and La Crosse still have manufacturers.

Care to defend that, Democrats?