What I object to is that the EPA would use that and mandate that private industry build that technology here in the U.S. And I think that your amendment would allow them to do that, and that is what I object to. I reserve the balance of my time.
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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.
27 States filed a lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan, and the Supreme Court issued a stay.
Congress did not write the Clean Air Act to provide EPA with the ability to create new regulatory powers and authorities so it can transform the Nation's energy system.
So many critics say that that flexibility argument--we're giving maximum flexibility to the State--is really a red herring.
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