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Palmer Cautions States Against Implementing Clean Power Plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 22, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), a member of the Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Interior, both of which have jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sent a letter along with Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith concerning the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) to the Governors and Attorneys General of all 50 states.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy recently testified before the Science, Space and Technology Committee and said the value of the Clean Power Plan was not measured by potential temperature drops, but “(M)easured in showing strong domestic action which can actually trigger global action.”

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