Democrats who Seek to Suspend EPA Regulations

Bloomberg  Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, introduced legislation that suspends for two years U.S. carbon-dioxide regulations for power plants and other industrial polluters.

Rockefeller has led an effort among Senate Democrats to suspend EPA rules that he said will burden businesses and hurt the economy. The Democrat has said the two-year delay is needed to give Congress time to craft a new energy bill. President Barack Obama will veto any attempt to block rules to regulate carbon, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said.

“Many of us agree that Congress, not the EPA, must be the decision-maker on such a challenging issue,” Rockefeller said in the statement.

New US Energy Chairman: “I Don’t Think We Have to Regulate Carbon”

Fred Upton (R-MI) is the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives…has dramatically changed his views on regulating carbon emissions over the past several months, evolving from a position that “[c]limate change is a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions” in April 2009 to writing in the Wall Street Journal this week that he opposes any regulation of carbon emissions, and that if the EPA did so, it would be an “unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions of jobs.”- Think Progress