New York Times (via Greenwire). Sep 28, 2010.

Republicans Blitz Obama Over EPA’s ‘Anti-Industrial’ Regulations.

Robin Bravender and Gabriel Nelson.

With the November midterm election nearing, Republicans in Congress are focusing their fire on U.S. EPA, describing the agency’s regulations on greenhouse gases and air pollution as the product of a “job-killing” Obama administration.

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has put together a laundry list of grievances about the agency’s regulatory agenda. His report, which will be released this afternoon, is the latest in a series from Inhofe, who previously investigated the “Climategate” controversy and issued a report accusing the Obama administration of bungling its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

“Unfortunately, the Obama EPA favors bureaucracy and heavy-handed intervention more than jobs and growth,” says a draft of the new report that was reviewed by Greenwire. “In many cases, outmoded provisions of the [Clean Air Act] are no longer tools to achieve clean air, but blunt instruments for EPA to enact anti-industrial policies.”

The report tallies potential job losses and economic impacts from the agency’s new greenhouse gas regulations, emissions standards for cement plants, proposed emissions rules for industrial boilers and the proposed tightening of the ozone standard.

Inhofe struck a populist tone this morning while previewing the report in an interview with conservative talk show host Ed Morrissey.

“All this silly stuff that they’re doing over at the EPA costs money,” Inhofe said, “and it disadvantages the poor more than anybody else.”

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