For Immediate Release:
10.29.15
Contact: Laura Sheehan
(202) 459-4867
lsheehan@americaspower.org
@Laura_A_Sheehan
ACCCE Statement on Senator Kelly Ayotte’s Support for President Obama’s Costly and Illegal Clean Power Plan
Washington, D.C. — American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Senior Vice President of Communications Laura Sheehan today issued the following statement regarding Senator Kelly Ayotte’s support for President Obama’s costly and illegal carbon regulations.
“As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010, Ayotte opposed cap and trade legislation which was then resoundingly defeated by Congress. Her latest ads now tout her support for the President’s unconstitutional regulation. Senator Ayotte needs to remember that this illegal plan is cap and trade in every way but name only and just as it was bad for New Hampshire before, it is bad for New Hampshire now.”
Background:
President Obama’s carbon regulations are a cap and trade in disguise
“This illegal regulation is a dressed-up version of the unpopular ‘cap and trade’ legislation from five years ago with a new name meant to deceive the public. This regulation would have the same devastating economic consequences as the first iteration of ‘cap and trade,’ which is why the first time around the idea ultimately died in the face of strong bipartisan opposition.” (Obama/Clinton Cap and Trade II Memo, September 8, 2015)
As a candidate in 2010 for the U.S. Senate, Kelly Ayotte opposed cap and trade
“In New Hampshire, Republican Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte says she’s not convinced global warming has been proved ‘conclusively’ and she too opposes the cap-and-trade bill, which she calls a tax.” (VPR, Republicans Campaign Against Cap-And-Trade, 10/18/2010).
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The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is a partnership of the industries involved in producing electricity from coal. Coal, an abundant and affordable American energy resource, provides nearly 40 percent of our power. By 2017, the coal-based power industry will have invested more than $142 billion to develop technologies to use this critical resource more cleanly and efficiently than ever before.