GOP senator blocks Biden EPA nominees over coal plant decision
Source: The Hill
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) on Friday confirmed she placed a hold on President Biden's nominee for a senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) position, citing concerns over the EPA's policy toward a coal plant in her state.
Senate Environment Committee Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) said on Wednesday that the nomination of David Uhlmann for the EPA's assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance had been pulled from the schedule. Carper said during a markup that an unnamed committee member was waiting for further information from the agency before deciding whether to back the nomination.
In a statement Wednesday, Lummis confirmed she was the senator in question, and said that she had decided to block the nomination after the EPA rejected the state's regional haze plan for the Jim Bridger Power Plant in southeastern Wyoming. Regional haze refers to air pollution's impact on visibility in 156 national parks and wilderness areas.
Lummis's office confirmed she would hold all four of Biden's currently unconfirmed EPA nominees over the issue.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-blocks-biden-epa-nominees-over-coal-plant-decision/ar-AASN3eE
Wyoming is suing other states that refuse to use coal. Maybe it's time for them to move into the 21st century.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wyoming/articles/2021-03-15/wyoming-lawmakers-back-fund-to-sue-other-states-over-coal
wiggs
(7,812 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)But yeah, f*** it, just install him, Joe!
Then let it go to court.
There really is no sense in playing fair anymore, the PuQ's laugh at us when we do, and the voters don't notice, so ...
Just do it!
BumRushDaShow
(128,924 posts)Unless the nominee was already either -
1.) previously confirmed by the Senate in some other capacity or is
2.) currently a civil servant in the federal government
then a President can't unilaterally "appoint" someone into such a position requiring Senate confirmation whether as "acting" or not.
David Uhlmann is currently a professor at University of Michigan's Law school.
bucolic_frolic
(43,149 posts)Ignore her
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Its time to strip the Senate of its vestiges of the House of Lords.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)in Wyoming up near Kemmerer,......or did she forget that small fact......resign, your dangerous...I don't like acid rain.....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/16/bill-gates-natrium-nuclear-power-plant-wyomning-kemmerer
TeamProg
(6,124 posts)onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)This isnt about governing. Its about blocking democratic governance.