Murkowski: EPA rules could threaten power reliability
By Andrew Restuccia
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is raising new fears about the effect of Environmental Protection Agency rules on electric grid reliability, after receiving an analysis on the issue from federal power regulators.
“EPA’s rulemakings could have a serious impact on the affordability and reliability of our nation’s energy supply, especially given the sheer number of new regulations the agency has rolled out in such a short time period,” Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Wednesday in a statement.
Murkowski’s concerns are likely to be used as fodder in Republicans’ ongoing push to delay or block EPA regulations that they say will impose unnecessary burdens on the economy. (E2 Wire)
It is not the speed of the rollout of the regulations that are the problem. The rules are designed to burden the power companies, prevent energy expansion, and make it much more expensive.
It’s time to cancel the EPA and reboot it with limited powers, all delegated and controlled by Congress. THis EPA has gone rogue and needs to be eradicated. They have succumbed to an outside agenda, by which our fearful leader is doing an end run around Congress to further his war on power, affordability, and the people.