U.S. Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) in introducing the Defending
America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act (S. 228). The bill aims
to stop Washington bureaucrats, including the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), from regulating greenhouse gases for
the purpose of addressing climate change without specific
Congressional authorization. In December 2009, then-Congressman
Moran was the first member of the House of Representatives to
introduce legislation to prevent EPA regulations on greenhouse
gas emissions. "This legislation sends a clear message to the
White House and the EPA that Congress will not sit idly by as
the administration continues to impose regulations detrimental
to our country's economic recovery," Sen. Roberts said. "As our
national unemployment rate continues to hover around 10 percent,
it makes little sense for the EPA to move forward with onerous
carbon mitigation regulations that will cost utilities, small
businesses and farmers mi