I have not heard that the GOP is doing this.
Do you have the link to the report?
It's rdean... he smoke a bunch of meth and then starts posting nonsense.
Not this time he put up the link.
McConnell Is Now Telling States To Ignore Obama s Carbon Emission Rules ThinkProgress
an op-ed for the
Lexington Herald Leader, McConnell said states should not form plans to meet the emissions reductions goals set out for them under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Under that plan, states would be required to create their own long-term strategies to reduce emissions, whether it be through cutting coal consumption, increasing renewable energy, or implementing a cap-and-trade program. If states don’t make a plan, the federal government will make one for them.
“Here’s my advice: Don’t be complicit in the administration’s attack on the middle class,” McConnell wrote. “Think twice before submitting a state plan.”
To support his advice, McConnell made familiar arguments, chief among them that the plan is “probably illegal.” If states don’t submit plans, he said, federal courts would have more time to weigh the lawsuits that are currently challenging whether the EPA has the legal authority to regulate carbon dioxide from power plants. Those lawsuits
claim that greenhouse gas rules “impose impermissible double regulation” because the EPA already regulates general air pollution from power plants.