In another blatant overreach, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced two final rules to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel fired power plants. The rules would impose an unprecedented new regulatory structure throughout the U.S. electricity sector and over 20 states face carbon reductions greater than 30 percent of current output. This move is an attack on the coal industry and American jobs, aims to shut down power plants, and will increase your energy prices. According to Southern Company, the impact of these rules would include higher costs, reduced reliability, lower tax revenues for our state and communities, and the potential loss of 800 jobs within the company. To make these rules even worse, the EPA does not project that either rule will have any meaningful impact on global temperatures. To combat this power grab, twenty-six states, including Georgia, recently filed a legal suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the final rule for existing power plants. I applaud this effort by the states and will do everything in my power in the United States House of Representatives to stop the EPA. Last week I signed two resolutions, H.J. Res. 67 and H.J. Res. 68, in an effort to halt the implementation of these rules which clearly exceed the EPA’s rulemaking authority.
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