[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 586]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 REGULATIONS ON COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, the Obama administration 
has repeatedly asserted their regulations on coal-fired power plants 
will not be a death blow to the industry. Unfortunately, the 
Environmental Protection Agency's most recently published rule for new 
coal-fired power plants tells us this claim could not be further from 
the truth.
  The administration asserts this regulation on new coal-fired plants 
will make use of ``adequately demonstrated'' technologies. Well, 
according to the Washington Examiner's editorial board:

       Federal law has long barred the EPA from mandating industry 
     use of technology that has not been ``adequately 
     demonstrated'' as ready for commercial use. It is simply 
     ludicrous for the EPA to claim in its proposed new rule that 
     CCS technology has reached such a point.

  Mr. Speaker, this administration is dead-set on eliminating coal from 
our fuel mix without a plan to make up for the energy that it provides 
or the jobs that it supports. It is an anti-energy agenda that is 
costing jobs, harming economic growth, and placing a greater burden on 
family budgets. The American people deserve better.

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