Joe Barton actually said...

I don't see in the record where TCEQ or a particular company has knowingly and willfully violated the Clean Air Act on the regulated pollutants.

Barton questions the evidence of noncompliance with the Clean Air Act.

03/23/2011

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If we repeal the ban, Mr. Chairman, on crude oil exports that discount disappears.

There is absolutely no health benefit to this proposal.

The only certainty would be that electricity rates would go, reliability would go down, and there would be routine blackouts.

This is not a health-based rule. It is not a rule based on a real economic science.