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Dr. Boozman's Check-up

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is waging a war on affordable energy. The agency is moving forward with plans that require existing power plants to meet expensive and unnecessary regulations. I joined several of my Senate colleagues to warn President Obama that urging these actions will result in higher utility bills for middle and lower-income Americans and called on him to abandon these plans. 

In his State of the Union address last week, the president said he would work with federal agencies to establish new standards regarding carbon pollution created by our power plants. However, these new requirements would negatively impact the bottom line of vulnerable Americans who would be forced to pay more for energy rates. 

“The most vulnerable families are those hit the hardest by bad energy policies and high utility bills,” we wrote in the letter. “Whatever our disagreements might be on how best to approach a changing climate, we think we can all agree that whatever we do should not burden ratepayers and consumers, especially middle and low-income families, with new costs.” 

Click to read the letter.

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