Ed Whitfield: “These greenhouse gas rules are a regulatory overreach in my view and serve as a backdoor cap and tax policy that…”

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.

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.

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

Well, some States would disagree with that. I've talked to many of them, and they view--even though you went through a process, that you set the standard.