Energy and the Environment
Us Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ) has spoken out against proposed environmental regulations and criticised it for the potential effects it would have on the coal industry. He indicated that the measures put forward by the Office of Natural Resources Revenie (ONRR) would have an impact on the valuation of federal onshore oil, natural gas and coal royalties.
Tuesday, December 8 U.S. Representative Gary Palmer (R from Hoover) warned that new rules to protect streams could cost 280,000 mining jobs.
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most powerful and most feared regulatory agencies in the country. What was originally intended to be an agency with a relatively modest charter has become much more powerful. The EPA is now claiming unrestrained authority to issue regulations that have major negative consequences for the American economy with little or no accountability to Congress.
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most powerful and most feared regulatory agencies in the country. What was originally intended to be an agency with a relatively modest charter has become much more powerful. The EPA is now claiming unrestrained authority to issue regulations that have major negative consequences for the American economy with little or no accountability to Congress.
For Immediate Release
Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), notes the coming end of the 21st session of the Conference of Parties, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Paris, France, and calls on the Obama Administration to submit any agreement reached to the Senate for ratification, as required under the Constitution.
Congressman Gary Palmer(AL-06), a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Interior, attended a hearing Tuesday on the Department of the Interior's (DOI) recently proposedStream Protection Ruleand took a stand against it citing how i
WASHINGTON — The same day President Barack Obama returned to the United States from a climate change conference in Paris, Republican members of Alabama's congressional delegation unanimously voted to block proposed regulations that are at the heart of the President's environmental agenda.
As President Barack Obama meets with world leaders at Paris' United Nations summit, House lawmakers passed legislation to undo a key part of the president's global warming agenda Tuesday.
House lawmakers passed resolutions to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency's so-called Clean Power Plan. House passage of the anti-EPA resolutions comes just two weeks after the Senate passed the Congressional Review Act resolutions to repeal federal rules on power plants.
Alabama Congressmen Reps. Mo Brooks(AL-05) and Gary Palmer (AL-06) joined fellow House lawmakers Thursday in introducing a joint resolution the would permanently block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recently finalized $25 billion per year ozone regulations.
A Cato Institute climate scientist told a House committee Wednesday the climate change talks in Paris at the end of the month won't change our climate's current path.
Paul Knappenberger, the assistant director for the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, told the House Science, Space and Technology Committee that the plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions put forth by countries attending the talks are going to be close to the status quo.
Rep. Gary Palmer has introduced legislation aimed at combatting the EPA's aggressive and controversial regulation of greenhouse gasses. H.R. 3880, the Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2015, has already garnered significant Congressional support with 107 original cosponsors. Rep. Palmer's bill is the latest in a series of Congressional attempts to fight the Obama Administration's attempt at a federal takeover of the electrical grid.
Alabama congressional delegates Mo Brooks, Bradley Byrne, Gary Palmer and Robert Aderholt are among 184 conservative-leaning members of Congress urging the Environmental Protection Agency to abandon a new Renewable Fuel Standard plan.
The proposal calls for increased levels of biofuel blending in the nation's gasoline supply, a controversial policy embraced by few Republicans.
It didn't take long for Thursday's House committee hearing on theEnvironmental Protection Agency's role in blocking the Pebble Mine to start sounding less like a congressional probe and more like the plot of a Michael Crichton thriller.
Alabama Republican Rep. Gary Palmer wants to reassert Congress's' authority over the Environmental Protection Agency by putting the brakes on the agency's global warming regulations.
"While the bill is focused on greenhouse gas regulations, the real crux of this bill is EPA and other agencies have given themselves too much power," Palmer told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.
An Alabama congressman wants to remove greenhouse gases from the list of air pollutants the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate so the agency has no authority to tackle climate change.
WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL6) introduced Tuesday a landmark bill which could dramatically decrease the amount of power the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has to regulate carbon emissions, as well as other "greenhouse gasses."
Recent controversial actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have caught the attention of freshman Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-06) and have prompted him to introduce new legislation to stop further overreach by the embattled agency.
U.S. Rep. GaryPalmer on Thursday cosigned a letter to the governors and attorneys general of all 50 states stridently opposing the Environmental Protection Agency's new "Clean Power Plan," which would shut down several coal-fired power plants among other changes to the nation's energy regime.
Palmer, who was joined in his epistolary effort by Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, said in the letter the Obama administration's new EPA regulations would do "enormous harm" to the domestic economy,
