Last Friday, conservatives in the U.S. House demonstrated their solid opposition to EPA’s rulemaking powers by passing the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011 (TRAIN Act, HR 2401) by a vote of 249 to 169. The TRAIN Act would not explicitly reduce EPA’s authority to issue major rules covering air, water, waste, and climate change. However, it would require the president to establish a committee comprising 11 federal agencies that would assess the cumulative and incremental impacts of rules on a wide range of national and state economic issues, including fuel and energy prices, employment, facility closures, and the reliability of bulk power supply in the United States.
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