Jan 5, 2011

New US Energy Chairman: "I Don't Think We Have to Regulate Carbon"

HTML clipboardhttp://blog.mlive.com/elections_impact/2009/01/medium_fred-upton-victory-party-2002.jpgFred Upton (R-MI) is the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives...has dramatically changed his views on regulating carbon emissions over the past several months, evolving from a position that "[c]limate change is a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions" in April 2009 to writing in the Wall Street Journal this week that he opposes any regulation of carbon emissions, and that if the EPA did so, it would be an "unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions of jobs."- Think Progress