GHG Daily
1/12/2016
On the eve of President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address, Thomas Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, took the opportunity to raise concern about Obama’s regulatory intentions during his last year in office. “Six of the seven years of greatest regulatory activity have now taken place on this president’s watch,” Donohue wrote in a Monday blog post on the Chamber of Commerce website, noting among the various regulations passed by the Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for new and existing coal-fired power plants.
“What can we expect in 2016? EPA has vowed to ramp up its efforts, including imposing new methane restrictions on oil and gas producers,” Donohue wrote, concluding that “another 365-plus days of unrelenting regulation by this administration is way too long to go unchecked.” Donohue charges that the regulations put in place by the administration are costly and contribute to “lost jobs, stifled investment, and trampled economic freedom.”
