Ed Whitfield: “Many of us on the other side of the aisle, and a lot of Democrats as well, believe that economic growth is one of the…”

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

Well, a lot of us did not believe that to be true.

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.