The final nail in the coffin for my town's proposed coal plant is an edict issued by the EPA, written by Gina McCarthy, Romney's top environmental advisor who was tasked by Romney to develop and implement the state's first global warming action plan.  Ironically, Romney's shifting position on global warming has led him to applaud the very types of plants that his former appointee has deemed unacceptable.  So, if Romney disliked the PG&A coal plant because it was old, just know that new coal plants with the latest technology and best emissions standards are no longer feasible, because of McCarthy and the EPA.  Even if your state regulates emissions, it no longer has the right to determine those standards on it's own.  Now, Romney's standards in Massachusetts are being implemented at the federal level.

On the campaign trail, Romney has shifted away from his Massachusetts policies, and has toned down his rhetoric to explain that liquified coal plants are the right way to keep our nation energy efficient and independent.  He agrees with Al Gore's carbon capture program that is nothing but an idea that makes the energy company responsible for developing the idea, increasing costs immeasurably. However those coal plants, like the one proposed in my town, are now impossible because his own policies in Massachusetts are being used nationwide.  To be sure, the goals and action plan of McCarthy's work in Massachusetts are about three years ahead of where the nation is right now.

But perhaps the most damning revelation in Mitt Romney's record in his progressive laboratory of Massachusetts, is seeking the advice from Obama's science czar, John Holdren.  Holdren is so far left on environmental issues, that his public suggestions have included putting sterilants in public drinking water, forced abortions, population control and confiscation of babies.  In the end, the modern radical environmentalist works to decrease the human population to save Mother Earth.  

So we are being asked to believe that the man who was a smart-growther 7 years ago, put in place the toughest CO2 caps in the nation, created building initiatives that stack people in big cities to somehow save the environment from urban sprawl, and did it all on the advice of some of the most radical and authoritarian control freaks in the rabid environmental movement, is going to completely change his attitude.  He won't be able to, and I'll tell you why.

Mitt Romney made Gina McCarthy a very powerful person, able to write law, legislating through regulation.  It would be dangerous politically for him to fire her from the EPA, because the Supreme Court says she can do what she is doing, through a landmark case that his own AG brought during his administration in Massachusetts.

Not Mitt, not anyone would be a smooth-enough flip-flopper to be able to purge the EPA and the rest of the administration from those who find humans expendable in the grand cause of saving the Earth.