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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.

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

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