Thank you for yielding to me. This bill, the EPA does not put a price on carbon. The EPA is not setting up a cap-and-trade program. The EPA is only saying, in new facilities with large amounts of carbon emissions, put in efficiency standards so that you can reduce those emissions. That's all.
Share & report
More from Henry Waxman
I yield myself 3 minutes. Mr. Chairman, the McKinley amendment provides that the Department of Defense may not make decisions based on science. Imagine, the Department of Defense should not make decisions based on science. They should…
At this time, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the State of Colorado (Ms. DeGette). Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, every year, sometimes more than once a year, since 2003 Congress has had to step in to prevent a cut in…
I was going to talk about this bill, and I will, but I really want to talk about the inflation in the naming of these bills. This is a bill to allow a faster process for exporting natural gas to other countries. So what is it called? The…
If you look at what is happening with this bill and this amendment, if both were passed, combined, coal and natural gas power plants emit a third of all carbon pollution in this country. They are responsible for virtually all carbon…
Other voices in this conversation
