"If without cause an agency can retroactively veto issued permits, then how can any company, contractor or concessionaire have confidence to invest in America?"
"Yes that is the goal of this Administration's appeal, they want to destroy jobs and expand the power of the EPA to have 'extra-legal new power' to revoke permits."
"Should the Administration win this case and grant EPA the power to retroactively revoke permits, it would destroy all certainty in permitting for projects across the country."
"In 2009 the EPA withdrew the permit issued to the Desert Rock Energy Plant on the Navajo Nation."
"You innovate or you die. Just ask the U.S. auto industry."
"I am glad Chairman Lamborn hosted this important hearing today on the Obama Administration's abuse of executive power."
"The Obama Administration's war on coal is most clearly exemplified in the Spruce Mine case."
"When EPA asserted the right to withdraw the specification of a disposal site for a Section 404 permit after issuance of it by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, ..."
"I appreciate your and Mr. Young's long commitment to tribal issues and specifically the focus that you have given on the important issue of energy and energy development on tribal lands."
"Unfortunately, too often the development of those resources is hindered on federal lands by burdensome and unreliable policies of the federal government."
"The mismanagement of these lands and that trust has a tragic history in our nation."
"The fracturing rule being put forward by the Department will in my opinion continue this historic mismanagement by putting tribal lands at a clear disadvantage to the private lands next door."