we are only one lawsuit away from you being forced to regulate dust particulates from farming activities or the roads

The current PM10 standard is 150 micrograms per cubic meter.

I claim time in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes.

Back in 2004, the D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, in a court decision, invalidated the 2004 Boiler MACT rules promulgated by EPA. In that court decision, EPA came to the court and said, We need additional time to come out with new Boiler…

Secretary Chu's decision this week to not delegate this authority to FERC is quite timely because I noticed in my comments here, he had not made that decision yet when they wrote this.

I want to thank the gentleman from Tennessee for offering this amendment. He always does a great job of articulating his position on these issues, some of which are pretty complicated. In this amendment, he would add illness-related work…

I move that the Committee do now rise. The motion was agreed to. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Griffith of Virginia) having assumed the chair, Mr. Duffy, Acting Chair of the Committee of the Whole House…

I think it is Congress's role to make those decisions and I don't think the Executive Branch can just delegate the explicit authority given to it under law.

My main problem with FERC Order 1000 is that it appears that under certain conditions an entity could be forced to pay for something that they don't want to participate in.

Maybe Congress may decide that it needs to do some legislation because maybe we don't view it the same way that FERC does.

Order 1000 seeks to provide flexibility to regions with respect to how regions should plan and pay for new transmission.

Well, without objection, and of course, we have the rule of the committee that she will have to wait until all the members of subcommittee ask their questions.