GHG Daily
1/14/2016
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is seeking state insights into the effects of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory programs. “EPA actions issued under environmental statutes such as the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act are based on the principle of cooperative federalism,” Inhofe wrote in a letter to 20 state environmental departments. “The Committee is particularly interested in hearing your state’s perspective on the current EPA regulatory framework.”
In the letters, sent to the environment departments of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wyoming, West Virginia, Idaho, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, Alaska, California, Delaware, Vermont, Rhode Island, Oregon, New York state, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maryland, Inhofe wrote that “the Committee respectfully requests your feedback on the state resources and efforts necessary to comply with EPA regulatory actions, and whether the current regulatory framework between EPA and the states upholds the principle of cooperative federalism.”
