The editors of the Washington Examiner write:

It’s hard to find two more interesting or important congressional panels these days than the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, chaired, respectively, by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan and Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington. Upton and Hastings are at the center of the House Republican majority’s efforts to stop two major items on President Obama’s agenda: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson’s attempt to implement by bureaucratic fiat a regulatory version of the cap-and-trade program that was rejected by Congress, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s effort to create out of whole bureaucratic cloth a destructive new public lands designation.
Upton and Rep. Ed Whitfield, the Kentucky Republican who heads the Upton panel’s subcommittee on energy and power, are methodically moving — with important assistance from Minnesota Democrat Collin Peterson — the Energy Tax Prevention Act to block Jackson from implementing the proposed greenhouse gas regulations that would make virtually all economic activity subject to her agency’s authority. Upton argues that energy costs will increase exponentially if Jackson isn’t stopped: “The very last thing the federal government should do is make matters worse by intentionally driving up the cost of energy. Yet that is exactly what’s in store if the EPA moves forward with its plans to regulate and penalize carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act,” said Upton. “The EPA is pursuing a dramatic shift in our nation’s energy and environmental policy that would send shock waves through our economy. Setting the course of our energy policy is the job of Congress, not a single federal agency acting without authority,” Whitfield adds.

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