CEI Leads Coalition Supporting the Stopping EPA Overreach Act
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Dear Mr. Speaker,
The undersigned organizations write to express our concerns about federal agency overreach, especially the Environmental Protection Agency’s campaign to de-carbonize the U.S. electric power sector and dictate national climate policy.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s climate-related regulations will have devastating consequences for the American economy, including higher energy prices and higher unemployment, while having almost no measurable impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. These regulations will be particularly harmful to lower income American families and those on fixed incomes, who spend a disproportionate amount of their earnings on energy.
One piece of legislation that addresses this overreach is the Stopping EPA Overreach Act, introduced by Representative Gary Palmer. H. R. 3880, which currently has 146 co-sponsors, would clarify that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency or any other federal agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In doing so, it would nullify recent climate-related rulemaking such as the EPA’s New Source Performance Standards and Existing Source Performance Standards for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Under the Constitution, it is the people’s elected representatives who are empowered to make law, but executive branch agencies are more and more often ignoring the will of Congress. H. R. 3880 would require that the EPA follow the clear intent of Congress when it passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
We encourage you to move out of committee and hold a floor vote on this important legislation. If enacted, H. R. 3880 would stop EPA’s job-killing regulations, help keep energy costs affordable, and help restore an accountable regulatory system.
Sincerely,
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Melissa Ortiz
Founder and Principal
Able Americans
Susan Carleson
President
American Civil Rights Union
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
Thomas J. Pyle
President
American Energy Alliance
Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Rick Manning
President
Americans for Limited Government
Brent Gardner
Vice President for Government Affairs
Americans for Prosperity
Dan Weber
CEO
Association of Mature American Citizens
Norm Singleton
President
Campaign for Liberty
KaLeigh Long
Executive Director
The Conservative Leadership PAC
E. Calvin Beisner
Founder and National Spokesman
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Thomas Schatz
President
Council for Citizens Against Government Waste
Craig Richardson
Executive Director
Energy and Environment Legal Institute
Adam Brandon
President and CEO
FreedomWorks
George Landrith
President
Frontiers of Freedom
Andresen Blom
Executive Director
Grassroot Hawaii, Inc.
Joseph Bast
President
The Heartland Institute
Andrew Langer
President
Institute for Liberty
Lisa Nelson
President
The Jeffersonian Project
Steven J. Milloy
Publisher
JunkScience.com
John Peterson
Director, Government Relations
Land Improvement Contractors of America
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Dee Hodges
President
Maryland Taxpayers Association
Forest Thigpen
President
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
David Ridenour
President
National Center for Public Policy Research
Willes K. Lee
President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Kenneth Haapala
President
Science and Environmental Policy Project
Karen Kerrigan
President
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Judson Philips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
David Williams
President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Brooke Rollins
President
Texas Public Policy Foundation
C. Preston Noell, III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Kevin L. Kearns
President
U. S. Business and Industry Council
Morton Blackwell
Chairman
The Weyrich Lunch
Peter Weyrich
Conservative Activist