Palmer Applauds SCOTUS Decision to Halt Overreach by the EPA

For Immediate Release

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Washington, D.C. – Following the Supreme Court’s decision to limit actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) via its abuse of the Clean Air Act, Rep. Gary Palmer issued the following statement:

“Today’s Supreme Court decision to rein in the EPA in regard to the agency’s overreach in regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is a long overdue recognition by the Court that there are limits to the EPA’s authority to legislate through regulation. Former Rep. John Dingell, the Democrat who helped write the Clean Air Act, stated the EPA was outside of its authority by imposing new rules on greenhouse gas coming from power plants during the Obama Administration,” said Rep. Gary Palmer. “This ruling is consistent with my Stopping EPA Overreach Act I introduced in 2017, which would make it clear the EPA does not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and that would reassert the responsibility of Congress to make law. American families are struggling with inflationary regulatory costs imposed by unelected bureaucrats at the EPA and other federal agencies.”

Palmer continued, “Americans didn’t elect the bureaucrats at the EPA to issue inflationary regulations that destroy jobs, increase energy prices and drive up the cost of living. I am grateful for the Supreme Court’s decision reining in the EPA’s overreach.”