By Rep. VICTORIA SULLIVAN for the Concord Monitor:
As the home of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, New Hampshire residents are going to have plenty of opportunities in the coming months to find out where national, state and local candidates stand on critical policies. If they value their pocketbooks and want federal agencies to operate within their legal jurisdiction, their first concern should be the Environmental Protection Agency’s costly and illegal carbon reduction plan.
In an obvious effort to shore up his environmental legacy, President Obama and the EPA are backing an expensive scheme to reduce carbon emissions by power generators. Disappointingly, New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster has chosen to support the president’s efforts and leave the fate of our electricity system up to bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
However, attorneys general and elected officials from 27 states are not standing by while the president flouts the rule of law to cement his legacy. They have filed a federal lawsuit against the EPA based on the fact that the Clean Air Act specifically forbids it from regulating emissions from existing power plants.
We need protection from a plan that will
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