Shelley Moore Capito

If a State doesn't submit a plan as required, that would trigger the obligation for EPA to do a Federal plan.

It is a sad affair. I wish you would come and talk with the folks that these regulations are very deeply affecting.

We have the highest unemployment in our State right now, and it is directly attributable to a lot of things, natural gas, yes. But also to the regulatory environment, everything you see.

We are hurting here. And when this regulation goes into effect, it is going to have an even more devastating effect on us directly.

I encourage Governors of each State to analyze the impacts of those clean energy jobs and other jobs that are created and sustained by the coal or natural gas industry.

Actually, in my bill in Section 4(b), I am asking for reporting, specific reporting...

To think we would not want to have policies that move forward to keep our children healthy is a smokescreen of some sort.

States should not be required to implement a State or Federal plan that the State's Governor determines would negatively impact economic growth.

The President talks about CCS and uses an example of CCS that is not economical or technologically feasible.

I think the passion I have on my side of this issue is just as heartfelt, sincere and driven by the people I represent every day.

As we all know, on Monday, President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency announced their final clean power grab.

States should not have to begin implementing these costly and burdensome plans until an unappealable judicial decision has been reached.

In my view, this is why we need the ARENA Act now more than ever.

We are going to see rate increases that I believe will be substantial.

Wouldn't it be advisable as a matter of public policy before implementation of the most expensive rule ever imposed on the electric utility sector, $9.5 billion a year, to know up front whether the rule is legal?

Put simply, there is no way that this massive, largely EPA-driven reduction in coal-fired electricity generation is going to impact only coal States.

The largest impediment we have to operating our business successfully is our own government, particularly the EPA.

Affordable energy matters.

I look forward to hearing in greater detail from our witnesses about the impact of these proposed regulations and the need for clean air policies that do not overburden our States and cripple our economy.

Part of the ARENA Act says we should not move forward with these regulations until all the legal aspects are settled.

I would imagine that the intent of siting one of these lagoons is not to leach arsenic into drinking water.

I want to start with Ms. Bowman. I would like to thank ANGA for supporting S. 1210, which is my bill, the permitting reform bill, that I introduced with Senators Cassidy and Heitkamp last week.

It is about creating timelines. It is not about running roughshod over any kind of environmental review or anything. It is just trying to move the process along to keep it from stalling out.

The stalling out or the length of time of the permitting creating so much uncertainty at a time when we have a critical need for new and improved and expanded infrastructure.

Well, I, certainly, would be very supportive of any kind of way--this could help solve more than just one problem here, if we were able to expand that and use it wisely.