Issue Position: Environment

Issue Position

While I believe it is in our collective best interest to look after God's creation and to protect nature and the wildlife that lives in it, this does not require extensive government involvement. The Federal EPA has become a seemingly unaccountable bureaucracy, driven by extremism that is dumping more regulatory burdens on businesses and ultimately killing jobs. A perfect example of this fact is right here in Arizona. The Navajo Generating Station near Page provides electricity to Arizona, as well as to California and Nevada. It also is essential to the Central Arizona Project, providing the energy to pump water from the Colorado River to an elevation 3000 feet higher over 300 miles away. Because the Station is coal-fired, the EPA is considering adding $1 Billion worth of regulations, even though the station already complies with numerous other regulations. Such a financial burden may lead to the Station's closure, an event that would cause water and energy costs to skyrocket, and cost numerous jobs. This kind of overreaching philosophy cannot be tolerated. I am not unconcerned with the quality of our air and health effects of pollution. Neither am I unconcerned with the disastrous consequences of a desert-based state running out of water. However, we could aptly manage such things without the EPA.

For more information on the Navajo Generating Station check out:
http://www.cap-az.com/PublicInformation/NavajoGeneratingStation.aspx

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