Commentary: U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce issued this statement on the House adoption of two resolutions that disapprove of the EPA’ job-killing ‘cap-and-trade’ regulations:
“The EPA’s Clean Power Plan and New Source Performance Standards will have a devastating impact on low income families in New Mexico,” said Pearce. “These regulations will cause businesses to cut thousands of jobs across the country, raise electricity prices on families, threaten grid reliability, and force states to implement a ‘cap and trade’ system that the President was unable to pass with a filibuster-proof majority in Congress. Instead, President Obama, through the EPA, has decided to use executive fiat to push these regulations, which go against the will of the people and are legally questionable. By passing these resolutions of disapproval, Congress is again refusing to go along with the President’s damaging standards, and assuring that the will of the people is honored.”
Background: S.J. Res. 23 disapproves of the EPA’s so-called Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources Rule. S.J. Res 24 disapproves of the Agency’s rule for Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units. These two regulations are part of the President’s so-called Climate Action Plan which he is touting in Paris. S.J. Res. 23 and 24 passed the House today by votes of 235-188 and 242-180, respectively.