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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.
