The question is how, but for shuttering coal generation in the State of Oklahoma.

The EPA, under this Administration, treats States like a vessel of Federal will.

Richard Lindzen is an MIT professor who is recognized as being one of the top professors around in the climate... He said, it is a power grab. He said, and these are his words, regulation of carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you regulate…

In their wisdom, Congress gave States a primary role in emissions regulation.

The Clean Power Plan proposal throws the cooperative relationship between the States and the Federal Government off balance.

I saw what happened. In fact, that first bill was the McCain-Lieberman bill; and McCain was a Republican. We decisively defeated that bill and every bill since that time.

the EPA was attempting an unconstitutional trifecta, usurping the prerogatives of the States, Congress, and the Federal Courts all at once.

Quite simply, Madam Chairwoman, the EPA does not possess the authority under the Clean Air Act to do what it is seeking to accomplish in the so-called Clean Power Plan.

I think it is less about the Tenth Amendment, less about States' rights under the Tenth Amendment, and more about statutory construction.

the President's own constitutional law professor, Lawrence Tribe, recently testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that his EPA was attempting an 'unconstitutional trifecta usurping the prerogatives of the States…

That does not sound like cooperation. That does not sound like partnership.

Should it be the role of an administrative agency to be forcing States to take this kind of action?