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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,
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.
Palmer spoke at length about his work in Congress. He sits on the budget committee and recently was part of creating the balanced budget plan that the House passed.