Our Energy, Our Future
English Calls for Co-op Action
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NRECA CEO Glenn English has issued a call to co-ops across the nation, urging them to press lawmakers to cosponsor bills that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources.
Glenn English
English said a push for congressional legislation through the two-year-old Our Energy, Our Future® campaign offers a way to circumvent an EPA regulatory program that could kick in as early as January 2011.
More than half-a-dozen bills and resolutions deal with blocking EPA regulation of greenhouse gases from stationary sources under the Clean Air Act, English noted.
They range from a two-year delay to resolutions of disapproval, but are aimed at a common goal, he said.
“We want to commit as many members of Congress as we can to one or more pieces of legislation that prohibit use of the Clean Air Act,” he said.
Eventually, English said, Congress will have to focus on a single measure relating to EPA regulation.
“We need that legislation to stop or suspend EPA from acting on emissions from stationary sources,” he said.
Related content: Click here for a list of bills and resolutions, and their cosponsors.
Congress never intended the act to be used as a tool to control greenhouse gas emissions from sources like power plants, said English, a former 10-term congressman. He noted Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., an author of the act, has said employing it to regulate carbon dioxide would lead to “a glorious mess.”
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