Coal bill includes Sullivan swipe at EPA
John Sullivan speaks in Tulsa last month. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World File
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
Published: 9/21/2012 1:41 PM
Last Modified: 9/21/2012 1:43 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives got in one last shot at President Barack Obama on Friday with a coal and environment bill written partly by 1st District Congressman John Sullivan.
The Stop the War on Coal Act combines three bills that previously passed the House but stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate. The three include Sullivan's Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts to the Nation Act, referred to as the TRAIN Act.
Sullivan's bill would have required economic impact analysis of environmental regulations.
“The Obama administration is trying to regulate what they don’t have the votes to legislate and it’s costing American jobs,” Sullivan said during debate on the bill Thursday night.
The other two elements of the Stop the War on Coal Act seek to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases and gives states regulatory authority over the disposal of coal ash. The bill passed the House 233-175 on Friday, with voting largely along party lines.
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