In 2012 Rouzer carried the Senate version of the bill that stopped North Carolina's coastal agencies from setting a sea-level-rise rate for four years — 'there was consensus years and years and years ago that the earth was flat.' The state's own science panel now says the coast he represents should plan on a foot of rise by 2050.
Goldman's first and only enacted law wiped out DOE standards for commercial refrigerators — permanently. DOE's own analysis: $1.32 to $3.43 billion in net savings for the businesses that buy them, against $117.7 million in manufacturer costs. His follow-up bill cancels up to $14,000 in appliance rebates for low-income households, sold with a number from the home builders' lobby.
Eighteen years after Hurricane Ike, the coastal barrier meant to protect Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel has received $5.5 million in federal money against a $35 to $57 billion price tag. Weber has represented that coast for 13 years.
Begich's draft would drop the standard for whale and walrus populations from 'maximum productivity' to bare survival, and auto-approve industrial permits after 165 days. Kawerak, the Eskimo Walrus Commission and the Alaska Federation of Natives all told him no.
HB 6 forced Ohio ratepayers to prop up two coal plants built in the 1950s at $233,000 a day. The nuclear part was repealed within a year of Larry Householder's arrest. The coal part survived until 2025. Carey lobbied on the bill, and now sits on Ways and Means.
FEC records show the Accountability Project's money came from LNG, Occidental Petroleum, a stack of Louisiana LLCs, four corporations that don't disclose their donors — and $205,586 from Letlow's own joint fundraising committee.
Nine coalfield counties in her district have water that causes rashes. Miller asked for $250 million from an EPA fund she voted against filling — and the committee said no twice.
"Americans should not be forced to breathe hazardous air year after year," he said in July. He has a 0% League of Conservation Voters score, voted to let federal regulators stall EPA clean-air rules, and is pushing to fire up a gas plant in Dunkirk.
H.R. 5765 would force the EPA, Energy and Interior to rewrite every rule, grant and policy using Balderson's definitions. His two biggest disclosed corporate donors are an electric utility and an oil refiner.