Eight Democratic senators representing coal states expressed concern to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson over her agency's potential regulation of GHG emissions, the Wall Street Journal reported. The senators said they "remain concerned about the possible impacts on American workers and businesses in a number of industrial sectors" over the possible "ill-timed or imprudent regulation" of GHGs.
Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., warned Jackson that "EPA actions in this area would have enormous implications and these issues need to be handled carefully and appropriately dealt with by the Congress, not in isolation by a federal environmental agency."
Rockefeller announced his drafting of legislation to require a halt to EPA authority over GHG emissions in order "to allow sufficient time for Congressional consideration of the nation's larger energy policy and economic needs."
In response to the senators' letter to Jackson, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, stated: "I commend my colleagues for becoming more engaged in this important issue and hope they will show their commitment by signing on as co-sponsors of the disapproval resolution. It's time to take the threat of EPA's command-and-control regulations off the table."
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