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James Mountain Inhofe is a former United States Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 1994 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Inhofe is known for his strong conservative views, particularly on issues related to national defense and environmental policy. He gained notoriety for his skepticism regarding climate change, famously calling it a hoax. Throughout his tenure, he held significant positions, including Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Let me just observe that in the last Congress when the Republicans were a minority, Senator Boxer had S. 2963, a bill to address discharge limits from large and small vessels reported through committee on a party line vote with no hearing.
The President comes out with his initiative which I believe is a national energy tax. To me, this is regulation without representation.
The biggest problem in getting the wind from where the wind blows to where the people live who want that electricity is the environmentalists who are blocking the building of the transmission lines to carry that energy.
Senator Inhofe. Senator Whitehouse, I appreciate the fact you have a lot of passion on this issue, but I also appreciate the fact we have had many hearings on this.
I am here in support of my friend from West Virginia and her legislation, Affordable Reliable Energy Now.
We can have a debate, my friends across the aisle disagree with me vehemently about this, about what CO2, carbon dioxide, is doing to the atmosphere.
This regulation is about CO2, not about the smudgy kind of carbon that messes up your clothes and you see coming out of automobiles.
The climate has always changed. There is a reason why the island of Greenland is named Greenland because at one point, it was green.
For us in Delaware, we are the lowest lying State in America, think about that.
I would just observe that talking about climate change, we have had a lot of committees to do that and that is not what we are doing today.
On that happy note, we have good news, and that is the vote has been moved to 2 o'clock...
These regulations are the product of backroom sue and settle tactics with radical environmental lobbying organizations.
This is about a colorless, tasteless, necessary part of the atmosphere called carbon dioxide.
Her bill sends the EPA back to the drawing board and provides a host of new requirements.
Burning the Constitution of the United States should not be a part of the national energy policy.
I think this is an opportunity to have debate in the committee, but in the end, the Administration's regulatory prerogative, which the Supreme Court said in June on the MATS rule, they had overreached their authority and had not considered…
This "sue-and-settle" to regulate now and litigate the merits later strategy is why "sue-and-settle" is counter to administrative law and principles for government transparency.
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this would strength the arguments for impacted parties' request for a judicial stay.
Later today, we are going to release the EPW oversight report detailing the problems surrounding sue-and-settlement.
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