Ed Whitfield: “I might say that no one on our side of the aisle has denied climate change. I think we still live in a country where we…”

“I might say that no one on our side of the aisle has denied climate change. I think we still live in a country where we all can express our views and we simply disagree with the President on the urgency of the issue. The President has even told the world that climate change is a more pressing issue to mankind than terrorism. When we talk to people in the developing world, when we talk to people in Europe and around the globe, representatives come here and they stress to us that they are more concerned about clean water, a job, electricity, health, hygiene, issues like that, than they are about climate change. Even in the polls here in America, only about 5 percent of the American people view climate change as one of the most pressing issues facing mankind. So that is why we have over 180 separate groups around the country that support these joint resolutions to turn back what President Obama is doing in an extreme and unprecedented way. I would also just like to read that the Partnership for a Better Energy Future, which is a 181-member coalition, including national as well as State and local organizations in 36 States, writes of EPA's rule for new plants, which is precisely what we are discussing today: The EPA set a regulation so strict that the only technology that meets the requirement for a coal-fired power plant, carbon capture and sequestration is not commercially available.…”