Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is advising states not to take part in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Supreme Court suspended Clean Power Plan.
The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee said they should ignore the EPA’s latest announcement that it will take the next step in providing guidance for the Clean Energy Incentive Program should the Clean Power Plan become effective.
“EPA’s continued work on the Clean Energy Incentive Program is inconsistent with the stay and part of EPA’s last-ditch effort to save the president’s legacy carbon mandates,” said the Senator in a statement. “States should not waste their resources or worry with the EPA’s latest actions. The agency has no respect for the rule of law or decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States and would rather progress a political priority at the expense of American taxpayers.”
The Senator said the Court has already ruled the EPA’s activities are on “legally vulnerable ground and states heeding the court’s direction should not far penalty.”
His committee held a recently hearing on the controversial plan and afterward, Sen. Inhofe sent a letter to the EPA’s Acting Assistant Adm. Janet McCabe seeking further clarification on the agency’s actions related to the Clean Power Plan.
