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GOP Pushes Bill to Rein In EPA's Global Warming Agenda

November 4, 2015

By: Michael Bastasch, The Daily Caller

GOP Pushes Bill to Rein In EPA's Global Warming Agenda

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.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

GOP lawmaker wants to keep EPA from regulating carbon

November 4, 2015

In The News

By: Kyle Feldscher, The Washington Examiner

GOP lawmaker wants to keep EPA from regulating carbon

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.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

Palmer authors bill to halt EPA regulation of carbon emissions, beat back ‘overreaching’ executive agency

November 3, 2015

In The News

By: Elizabeth Beshears, Yellowhammer News

Palmer authors bill to halt EPA regulation of carbon emissions, beat back ‘over…

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."

Issues:Energy and the Environment

Gary Palmer introduces bill to stop EPA overreach

November 3, 2015

In The News

By: Elizabeth Lauten, Alabama Today

Gary Palmer introduces bill to stop EPA overreach

Recent controversial actions by the U.S.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

Palmer Introduces the Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2015

November 3, 2015

Press Release

For Immediate Release Washington D.C. – Today, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), a member of the Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Interior, introduced the Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2015. This bill would remove the ability of the EPA to regulate so-called “greenhouse gasses,” an authority the EPA assumed after Massachusetts v. EPA, a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision which interpreted the Clean Air Act to allow regulations of common and necessary compounds that were not contemplated when the act was originally passed.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

Palmer Press October 2015

October 30, 2015

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For our founding fathers, life was the first right. They understood that there is an order to things that even nature teaches us. They understood and fully embraced that the first and foremost right is life, because without life, there is no liberty. Without life, there is no pursuit of happiness. Without life, there is no discussion of a right to privacy or a right to choose, because without life, there is nothing to choose. Life presupposes and precedes all other rights. That is why the right to life is fundamental to everything I believe.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

Gary Palmer: Clean power plan means “enormous harm” to U.S. economy

October 23, 2015

In The News

By: Ryan Ray, Alabama Today

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.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

Palmer Cautions States Against Implementing Clean Power Plan

October 22, 2015

Press Release

For Immediate Release Washington D.C. – Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL), a member of the Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Interior, both of which have jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sent a letter along with Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith concerning the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) to the Governors and Attorneys General of all 50 states. The letter urges the states to delay submitting a State Implementation Plan (SIP) until all of the numerous legal challenges to the rule are exhausted. Submitting a SIP is optional under the law.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer Speaks to Chamber

October 20, 2015

In The News

By: Kaitlin Candelaria, Over the Mountain Journal

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer Speaks to Chamber

Hoover merchants gathered Oct. 15 to hear U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer speak at the monthly chamber of commerce meeting at the Hyatt Regency-Wynfrey Hotel.

Palmer was elected as the representative for Alabama's sixth congressional district in 2014. He is a Hoover resident.

Issues:Energy and the EnvironmentTax Reform

U.S. House 'not as messed up as you might think,' Gary Palmer says

October 15, 2015

In The News

By: Jon Anderson, The Hoover Sun

U.S. House 'not as messed up as you might think,' Gary Palmer says

The debate over leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives may make Washington look like a messed-up place, but “it’s not as messed up as you might think,” U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer told the Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce today.

Issues:Energy and the Environment

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