They seem rather shocked that someone who has been against the CPP wants to kill it
(Daily Caller) Four Democratic senators are demanding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt recuse himself from repealing a former President Barack Obama-era regulation placing significant burdens on fossil fuel energy providers, The Washington Post reports.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Brian Schatz of Hawaii together submitted a comment to the EPA Wednesday on repealing the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The group of Democratic lawmakers claim that Pruitt’s bias toward the CPP — he sued the EPA four times over his term as attorney general of Oklahoma — prevents him from making a fair judgement.
“The evidence for Pruitt’s inalterably closed mind on CPP rulemaking is overwhelming,†the senators wrote, according to The Hill. “It falls into three categories: (1) his deep and wide financial ties to the fossil fuel industry which is ferociously opposed to the CPP; (2) his status as a previous petitioner suing the EPA to block the CPP; and (3) his numerous statements denouncing the CPP, questioning the ability to regulate carbon emissions under the [Clean Air Act] as the CPP proposes to do, and casting doubt on climate science.â€
The lawmakers request follows similar comments filed by environmental groups and left-leaning states and cities in January.
Would Pruitt be attempting to kill off CPP if he supported it? Seriously, Democrats are just silly. Have they forgotten that “elections have consequences”? Perhaps they shouldn’t have jammed through a rule that harms citizens and the energy sector for a scam. A scam that most of them, like Sheldon Whitehouse, apparently do not feel applies to them, as they use lots and lots of fossil fuels in their personal and professional lives.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court had blocked implementation of the CPP back in February of 2016. It has never been in force. Twenty seven states sued over it. If these Democrat Senators really love CPP, they should get their states to implement it. We can use them as test-beds to see what happens.
