The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is out with a study on the impacts of the Obama coal regulations. Oregon stands to lose 2,434 jobs if the Boardman plant closes down.

The Occupy/Fithian/Soros crowd has chosen ALEC as its latest target for proposing common sense laws,  so expect there to be plenty of heat about this study.

It sounds like ALEC is fighting back. Just take a look at the preface to this study:

 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun a war on the American standard of living. During the past couple of years, the Agency has undertaken the most expansive regulatory
assault in history on the production and distribution of affordable
and reliable energy. As of 2010, EPA regulations promulgated
under the Obama Administration had already surpassed the
Agency’s regulatory output in the entire first term of Bill Clinton,
which, as the Wall Street Journal notes, was a period in which
“the EPA had just been handed broad new powers” under the
1990 revisions to the Clean Air Act. With 30 major regulations
and more than 170 policy rules still being finalized in the next
five years, the extent of EPA actions could surpass its entire 40-
year history of regulation.

See the study yourself here.