GOP senator blocks Biden EPA nominees over coal plant decision

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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

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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]

1. appoint her as 'acting' officer in that position. nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. I'm thinking David Uhlmann is a male :)

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]

8. He can't do that

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]

2. Do what Mitch would do

Ignore her

[BlueIdaho]

4. Individual Senators wield way too much power.

It’s time to strip the Senate of its vestiges of the “House of Lords.”

[turbinetree]

5. I guess this libertarian dipsh*t forgot that good old Bill Gates is building a nuclear power plant

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. Everything Republicans do is the exact opposite of what should be done. n/t

[onecaliberal]

7. Ignore the traitor party and just put the person in the job.

This isn’t about governing. It’s about blocking democratic governance.