On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
I released today a minority staff report of the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works. When Republicans were in the majority I chaired the committee and now I am the ranking member, minority member. We have been concerned for quite some time now that the heavyhanded overregulation we are getting from the Environment and Public Works Committee is taking its toll on American jobs. So we released this and documented a report that examines the impact on jobs and the economy from all these EPA rules and EPA regulations. We are covering four areas. The focus is on the boiler MACT regulations, the revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone--we are all concerned about that--I notice the new cement MACT regulations, and the endangerment findings. These are just four rules that are costing us a lot of jobs. There are many others we could be talking about, in fact we are going to be talking about in the near future: standards for cooling water intake structures at powerplants, National Ambient Air Quality Standards for dust and particulate matter--actually, they are talking about doing one now for farm dust. I am from Oklahoma. A lot of people back here don't understand when you grow something you have to grow it in dirt. When the wind blows that is dust, but you can't regulate it. But they think they can--the new source performance standards for coal-fired powerplants and refineries, and the rules governing disposal of coal combustion waste.
