The Sturm und Drang to which utility executives, coal companies and politicians have subjected Virginians as they oppose President Obama's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions has always been a deliberate distraction from what's really happening. According to them and their confederates at the State Corporation Commission and the state Department of Environmental Quality, the Clean Air Act, which seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by a certain date, is a foolhardy, ill-intended bureaucratic effort to put coal out of business and slap ratepayers with bigger bills.