Despite the fact that as Oklahoma attorney general you sued the EPA challenging the Bay TMDLs previously, you also pledged with Senator Cardin that you would support the federal government's role in Chesapeake Bay partnership.
Sarbanes highlights a contradiction in Pruitt's commitment to the Chesapeake Bay Program.
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This bill takes important steps to support the ongoing restoration of the Chesapeake Bay by reauthorizing NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office and authorizing the agency's long-running Bay Watershed Education and Training, or B-WET Grant program.
It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.
Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.
The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.
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