Sens. Cruz, Capito, Wicker, Colleagues, Send Amicus Brief in Challenge to EPA’s So-Called “Good Neighbor” Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), joined several of their House and Senate Republican colleagues in filing a bicameral amicus curiae brief in the D.C. Circuit in support of state and industry challengers of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called “Good Neighbor” air rule that targets American power production and burdens states with misguided air regulations.
In the brief, the senators wrote, “Acting well beyond its delegated powers under the [Clean Air Act], EPA’s Rule proposes to remake the energy sector in the affected states toward the Agency’s preferred ends. The Rule is part of the broader joint EPA-White House Strategy that oversteps the Agency’s authority by concurrently developing regulations under three separate environmental statutes. It does so not to meet any of the statutes’ individual ends but to transform the power sector. The group of regulations – including the Rule – are designed to hurriedly rid the U.S. power sector of fossil ?fuels by sharply increasing the operating costs for fossil fuel-fired power plant operators, forcing the plants’ premature retirement.”
Sen. Cruz was joined by Sens. John Barrasso, M.D. (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-Wyo.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and John Thune (R-S.D.) in filing the brief.
Rep. McMorris Rodgers was joined by Reps. Rick Allen (R-Ga.), Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D), Troy Balderson (R-Ohio), Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), Larry Bucshon (R-Ind), Michael Burgess (R-Texas), Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), Earl “Buddy” Carter (R-Ga.), Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), John Curtis (R-Utah), Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho), Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.-01), Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), John James (R-Mich.-10), John Joyce (R-Pa.), Robert Latta (R-Ohio), Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa-01), Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.), Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), Greg Pence (R-Ind.), August Pfluger (R-Texas), Tim Walberg (R-Mich), and Randy Weber (R-Texas) in filing the brief.
Read the full brief here.
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