{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/supreme-court-effectively-kills-green-new-deal-and-upholds-rule-law", "Supreme Court Effectively Kills the Green New Deal and Upholds the Rule of Law", "2022-06-30", "2022", "2022-06", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "In response to the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark decision in West Virginia v. EPA, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cOur government of the people, by the people, for the people is meant to be led by the people\u2019s elected Representatives, not unaccountable bureaucrats. Congress never gave the EPA the power to dictate the minutia of how energy producers should produce energy for every power plant across the country. It was wrong for Obama and his agency minions to attempt to usurp Congress\u2019 power to begin with, and I am grateful that the Supreme Court returned power to the people and restored the separation of powers.\n\n\u201cGood riddance to the EPA\u2019s Green New Deal-like executive mandates. We are facing the most pressing energy crisis since Jimmy Carter, yet the Biden regime is more focused on shutting down American energy production than delivering reliable, affordable energy to keep the lights on and gas prices low. Climate ideologues are out-of-touch with the American people, and I am grateful that their war on coal was found unconstitutional. The Supreme Court again made the right decision and courageously defended the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers. Executive agencies have the power to enforce the law, not make it.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nIn December 2021, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert signed an amicus brief in support of West Virginia arguing that the EPA had gone beyond its statutory authority and infringed on Congress\u2019 exclusive legislative power.\n\nAn independent economic analysis found that the so-called \u201cClean Power Plan\u201d would have killed 226,000 jobs annually and cost the U.S. economy $50 billion each year.\n\nIn February of 2016, the Supreme Court issued an order on a 5-4 vote that blocked Obama\u2019s so-called \u201cClean Power Plan\u201d from taking effect.\n\nThe Trump administration agreed that Obama\u2019s job-killing mandates exceeded the EPA\u2019s regulatory authority, so they repealed it and replaced it with the less extreme Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule. However, several blue states sued and won in the U.S. appeals court in Washington which vacated the repeal of the Clean Power Plan as well as the ACE Rule.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:13:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/supreme-court-effectively-kills-green-new-deal-and-upholds-rule-law"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7579568773508072, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}