Perry, Cruz blast Obama's EPA proposal

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So Obama wants even higher costs...more unemployment...and an unreliable electrical grid...?

The latest proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that would require power facilities to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions is being met with opposition from Texas lawmakers.

The EPA claims the proposed regulation, unveiled June 2, would fight climate change by cutting carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2030. The regulation particularly takes aim at the more than 600 coal-fired power plants in the country.

“Mr. President, your words promise an energy renaissance while your policies are strangling the energy industry,” Perry wrote. “You are waging a war on coal, kicking the can down the road on the Keystone XL pipeline and creating obstacles to onshore and offshore oil and gas production.”

Perry said he was “deeply concerned” that the Obama Administration’s EPA “behaves more like a den of activists than a repository of even-handed regulators.”

“More than 100 coal plants employing 15,000 Americans are closed or closing due to EPA regulations under your administration, and proposed new regulations will directly affect more than 37,000 employees across the nation, in addition to jeopardizing the reliability of our nation’s electrical grid and increasing energy costs for families,” wrote Perry. “This, despite your assurance of a renewed emphasis on American economic recovery.”

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the new EPA rules will “cripple the coal industry” and deprive Americans from jobs, whether they are employed by coal mines or related power plants, or employed in energy dependent business such as manufacturing or technology businesses.

“These rules will not only drive up electric bills, but also threaten the reliability of the nation’s electric grid and make it harder for American manufacturers to compete in the world market,” Cruz said in a statement. “Once again, President Obama is more concerned with the desires of billionaire campaign contributors and placating extremist special interests than helping American workers and families escape the failed Obama economy. “

Cruz said that legislation he introduced earlier this year, the American Energy Renaissance Act, would specifically halt those job-killing regulations and encourage the creation of “good-paying energy jobs.”

Perry, Cruz blast Obama?s EPA proposal | Southeast Texas Record

 

[Mr. H.]

Useless, worthless, and counter-productive.

 

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Useless, worthless, and counter-productive.

When talking Perry and Cruz, that goes without saying.

 

[Mr. H.]

Useless, worthless, and counter-productive.

When talking Perry and Cruz, that goes without saying.