US GHG regs besieged.

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      UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      REPUBLICAN Party (U.S. : 1854- ) ; UNITED States. Environmental Protection Agency
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      WHITFIELD, Ed
    • Abstract:
      The article offers information on the efforts of the U.S. Republican Congress to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing regulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The House Subcommittee on Energy and Power held the first hearing on a bill, The Energy Tax Prevention Act, on February 9, 2011, aimed at blocking GHGs regulations. Subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield said that the EPA and president Barack Obama administration is hurting domestic coal production.