Ed Whitfield: “The proposed rule would lower the standard from the current 75 parts per billion down to 65 ppb or 70 ppb.”

So many critics say that that flexibility argument--we're giving maximum flexibility to the State--is really a red herring.

The Clean Power Plan was like picking up the Constitution and tearing it up.

There are strong feelings on the issue because many people, and we are speaking for our constituents, believe that EPA is exceeding its legal authority under the direction of a president who is trying to impose his will on climate change…

I want clean air. I want clean water. But I don't want an organized attack on the energy-producing sector of America because of, to use Mr. McNerney's term, a political decision to go after hydrocarbons.