Ed Whitfield: “There is nothing in the Clean Air Act that even suggests such sweeping agency action is authorized.”

During the almost 6 years that I have been chairman of this subcommittee, we've had 40 hearings that have looked at various EPA rules and proposals that affect or will affect the Nation's energy and industrial sectors.

It is critically important that the Federal Government maintains its leadership role of promoting, encouraging, and enticing interested stakeholders.

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.

there is an immense loss of wildlife habitat where because of the incentives that Congress has passed...