During an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the 2017 Environmental Protect Agency (EPA) budget, Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. took Administrator Gina McCarthy to task on the economic viability of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS).
When asked by Bucshon if any coal facility in the United States is successfully implementing CCS, McCarthy could only produce… Read more »
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Stricter clean air regulations were put in place by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The moves were done without the consent of Congress and it led to a fight that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Eighth District Indiana Congressman Larry Bucshon was among 200 members of Congress who filed a brief with the Court claiming EPA overstepped its legal authority and… Read more »
This week, Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. and 204 members of Congress filed an amicus brief supporting petitions filed by 27 states, including Indiana, seeking to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan.
The Associated Press reported, “A brief filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington argues that the U.S.… Read more »
Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. joined 34 members of the U.S. Senate and 170 members of the House in filing an amicus brief supporting petitions filed by 27 states, including Indiana, seeking to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan.
“These regulations would be devastating to Indiana’s energy sector, the thousands of jobs… Read more »
This week, the House of Representatives passed a joint resolution nullifying the Environmental Protection Agency’s flawed Waters of the United States (WOTUS). The resolution was approved in the House by a bipartisan vote of 253-166 and was sent to President Obama’s desk.
Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon supported the legislation saying that stopping the EPA’s… Read more »
The House of Representatives today passed S.J. Res. 23 and S.J. Res. 24, two resolutions that provide for congressional disapproval (under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code) of the EPA's unprecedented regulations on both new and existing fossil-fuel fired power plants.
During debate on the House floor, Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. spoke in support of the… Read more »
Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 427, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, a bill subjecting any executive branch rule or regulation with an annual economic impact of $100 million or more to an up-or-down vote in Congress.
“In a landmark decision last month, the… Read more »
On Monday, Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D., a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement in reaction to the Supreme Court’s Michigan v. EPA ruling requiring the EPA to consider the costs of the regulations it imposes on American families and energy producers:
“The President and his EPA will stop at nothing to implement their… Read more »
On Wednesday, Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. voted to pass, H.R. 2042, The Ratepayer Protection Act, a bill introduced by Congressman Ed Whitfield (KY-01), to protect families and businesses from significant electricity rate increases or reduced electric reliability that may result from EPA’s pending regulations for existing power plants, also known as the… Read more »
Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D., member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, release the following statement praising Governor Mike Pence’s announcement that Indiana will not comply with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan in its current form.
“I echo Governor Pence’s concerns with the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. These regulations will… Read more »
