Boxer urges ‘good stewardship’ by utilities; Republicans predict higher prices

摘要

Senate Democrats on June 15 praised U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa nJackson for working to save lives threatened by diseases caused by nair pollution, while Republicans blasted new EPA air quality rules that nthey say could increase electricity prices by 23% by 2020.n“Today, the Clean Air Act is being implemented in a way that bears nno resemblance to what Congress intended. Congress didn’t give nEPA the authority to set mandates that can’t be achieved. Congress ndidn’t give EPA the authority to pursue an agenda that hurts the very npeople it’s supposedly trying to protect,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., nranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works nCommittee, said at a hearing on the Clean Air Act and public health.