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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.