GOP Uses Hearing On EPA's FY16 Budget As Push To Aid GHG Rule Suits

House Republicans at a hearing on EPA's fiscal year 2016 budget request sought to build a record that could help lawsuits challenging EPA's proposed climate rules for new and existing power plants, even as one GOP House member says the agency's critics likely lack the votes for legislation that would block the regulations. During the Feb. 25 joint hearing of two House Energy & Commerce subcommittees, Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) told EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that the agency “has the...