McConnell Confronts McCarthy Over EPA's ESPS Enforcement Power

摘要

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is directly confronting EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on the agency's greenhouse gas (GHG) rule for existing power plants, charging that the agency may not ultimately be able to enforce the rules in his state. The majority leader, one of the most high-profile critics of EPA's rule, added during an April 29 Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on EPA's fiscal year 2016 budget that the Clean Air Act presents a hurdle for multi-state plans to comply with the rule, arguing that Congress would have to approve such plans, and that the Senate under his leadership would do no such thing.