{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=b8e12075-b984-4425-811b-a447d04089a7", "Senators: EPA\u2019s Carbon Listening Tour Bypasses Coal Country", "2013-11-01", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) along with Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) and nine other Senators recently sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy criticizing the EPA\u2019s decision to largely bypass coal producing areas on its \u201clistening tour\u201d on proposed carbon cap regulations. In the letter, the Senators call on Administrator McCarthy to actually visit with and listen to the opinions of the people most impacted by EPA\u2019s anti-coal policies.\r\n\u201cAs your regulations will likely have a significant negative impact on the use and development of coal, and the livelihoods and energy bills for folks across rural America, it only makes sense that you should actually go to the areas that will be most impacted by your policies. Unfortunately, it appears your listening tour will merely rubber stamp whatever pre-conceived policy this Administration was planning on pursuing in the first place. We respectfully request that you consider hearing the opinions of the people most impacted by your policies. Americans most impacted by your policies deserve to be heard,\u201d wrote the Senators.\u00a0\r\nSenators John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Mike Lee (R-UT), Pat Toomey (R-PA) and David Vitter (R-LA) joined Senators Barrasso and Enzi in sending this letter.\r\nFull text of the letter below:\r\n\u00a0\r\nOctober 31, 2013\r\n\u00a0\r\nThe Honorable Gina McCarthy  Administrator  Environmental Protection Agency  1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.   Washington, DC\u00a0 20460\r\nDear Administrator McCarthy,\r\nWe are contacting you regarding our concerns about the EPA\u2019s announced listening tour on developing new carbon limit regulations for existing coal fired power plants.\r\nThe EPA recently began a listening tour which will visit 11 cities across the country to hear the public\u2019s views on placing carbon limits on existing coal fired power plants.\u00a0 All but one of these cities is a major metropolitan area (New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle). The exception is Lenexa in Kansas, which is actually located in the Kansas City, Kansas metropolitan area.\u00a0\r\nMost of these areas are not where coal is either utilized or produced in any significant way.\u00a0 Your listening tour will miss seventeen of the top twenty coal burning states.\u00a0 In addition, your tour will miss sixteen of the top twenty coal producing states, including the top three (Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky).\r\nAs your regulations will likely have a significant negative impact on the use and development of coal, and the livelihoods and energy bills for folks across rural America, it only makes sense that you should actually go to the areas that will be most impacted by your policies. Unfortunately, it appears your listening tour will merely rubber stamp whatever pre-conceived policy this Administration was planning on pursuing in the first place.\r\nWe respectfully request that you consider hearing the opinions of the people most impacted by your policies. Americans most impacted by your policies deserve to be heard.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sincerely,", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=b8e12075-b984-4425-811b-a447d04089a7"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1741425842046738, "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"}