Empowered by the new GOP-led House, U.S. Rep. Fred Upton is taking aim at reining in the Environmental Protection Agency this week with legislation that bars the agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide.
Upton’s bill, expected to pass out of a House subcommittee Thursday, would stop the EPA from proceeding with plans to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from large emitters. Upton, the new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the EPA’s proposal would raise energy prices, cripple job growth and amounts to a backdoor way to impose cap-and-trade legislation that Congress already rejected.