Political Quotes

“I join my colleagues today to discuss the Biden administration's onslaught of energy regulations that will make electricity more expensive and less reliable for homes and businesses across the country. In April, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized four new regulations specifically targeting our coal-fired electric powerplants--certainly the coal-fired powerplants in my State of North Dakota--including an expensive, unachievable new mercury and air toxics standards, or MATS, rule, despite the EPA's own regulatory analysis-- their own regulatory analysis--stating that the previous rule was adequately protecting public health; the Clean Power Plan 2.0--so- called Clean Power Plan 2.0--requiring existing coal-fired and new gas- fired plants to reduce CO<INF>2</INF> emissions by 90 percent when the technology is not yet commercially viable. They can't do it. That just puts them out of business, meaning less baseload electricity. And also they put forth a new coal ash management rule and water discharge rule, imposing costly, unachievable requirements on power generators, all at a time when we need more electricity. Now, the Biden administration's regulatory blizzard comes at a time when the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, or NERC, continues to raise concerns about elevated risks of blackouts and brownouts.…”