Congressman Mike Rogers sent a letter today to Gina McCarthy, the new Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging her to reverse course and ensure any new Obama Administration EPA regulations for America’s energy sector do not threaten good paying jobs.

The letter states, “In his speech on June 25, 2013, at Georgetown University, President Obama reiterated that he will try and go around Congress and administratively implement many of these potentially devastating rules…..Merely seven of the EPA regulations proposed since President Obama took office, for example, could cost as much as $16.7 billion annually once fully implemented.  I believe some of these rules were created to push the American coal industry, in particular, and the thousands of jobs it supports into oblivion.”

Rogers was highly critical of President Obama’s willingness to go around Congress to implement his environmental agenda. “Circumventing the constitutional role of Congress is not following the law,” Rogers said. “America is facing a domestic energy revolution that could provide thousands of good paying jobs to hard-working Americans, but to try to take this away with massive new anti-job EPA regulations is simply wrong.  I hope Administrator McCarthy will reverse course on the EPA’s recent and damaging record of job-threatening regulations and red tape. In these tough economic times, Americans deserve at least that,” Rogers added.

Rogers serves as Chairman of the Strategic Forces subcommittee on the Armed Services Committee and is a senior member of the Homeland Security and Agriculture committees. 

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