Player of the Week: Environmental Protection Agency
By The Hill Editors - 07/23/13
12:00 AM EDT
The Environmental Protection Agency will be at the center of several
debates this week on Capitol Hill.
On Monday, House Republicans
unveiled their plan to slash the EPA’s budget by 34 percent in fiscal 2014. The
budget blueprint would also block federal rules to limit carbon emissions from
power plants.
The lower chamber has also put two
energy bills on the floor agenda this week.
Rep. David McKinley’s (R-W.Va.)
measure challenges the EPA’s decision to label coal ash as a hazardous
material. The bipartisan bill — backed by many Republicans and Reps. Henry
Cuellar (D-Texas), Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) — cleared the Energy
and Commerce panel 31-16.
Rep. Bill Cassidy’s (R-La.)
legislation, the Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013, calls for more stringent
cost-benefit analyses of pricey regulations. That bill passed the Energy panel
along party lines, 25-18.
Last week, the Senate, as part of
the deal to avert the “nuclear option,” approved Gina McCarthy as head of the
EPA. She will be very busy.
President Obama, whose legislative
effort on climate change fell short in 2009 and 2010, is now tackling the
thorny issue through administrative actions.
Proponents of the president’s climate plan will fight to
defeat the GOP’s effort to gut the EPA’s funding levels.
But there are some Democrats,
especially centrists who are up for reelection in 2014, who are wary of how
active the EPA will be over the next several years.
Congressional Republicans usually
schedule votes on energy when gas prices are rising, as they are now.
Last week, an official with AAA
told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that motorists shouldn’t
expect gasoline to ever fall below $3 a gallon.
That’s one of the many reasons
energy and the EPA will be hot-button topics for years to come.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Lee
M. Thomas was an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a director at the Climate Reality Project.
Note: Orin S. Kramer was
an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a director at the Climate Reality Project, and a friend
of Albert A. Gore Jr.
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is a friend of Orin S.
Kramer, and the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project.
Carol M. Browner
was an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a director at the Climate Reality Project, the energy
czar for the Barack Obama administration,
and is a senior fellow, director at the Center
for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Climate Reality Project, the Center
for American Progress, the ClimateWorks
Foundation, and the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
William K. Reilly
is the chair for the ClimateWorks
Foundation, and was an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
William
A. Nitze is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and an assistant
administrator for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
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