House GOP sees little benefit in EPA's flagship air and water rules

摘要

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee today grappled with whether U.S. EPA's three most sweeping new and proposed rules are unnecessary burdens on industry or lifesaving public health safeguards. Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) argued at the top of the hearing that EPA proposals for power plant carbon and atmospheric ozone and its newly finalized "Waters of the U.S." rules would have little real environmental benefit but would bring a broadening swath of the economy under the agency's control.