House Energy Leaders Claim Non-Existent Support From Dozens Of Green Groups In Fight To Cut Air Laws

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee's GOP leadership inaccurately claimed Thursday that a number of green groups support legislation to delay – perhaps indefinitely – a pair of Environmental Protection Agency power plant pollution regulations.

On Thursday evening Republican committee staff circulated a list of more than 100 groups that “have sent letters to Congress supporting passage” of the legislation, known as the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act. The list includes a number of groups that have strongly opposed the bill, including the Texas chapter of Public Citizen, Clean Air Watch, the Clean Air Task Force and Clean Water Action.

“Depending on how charitably you’re feeling about the people who put the list together, it’s either a lie or a mistake,” Clean Water Action spokesman Jonathan Scott told The Hill. Committee Republicans sent a news release acknowledging the error. "An earlier list included some groups that had not sent in letters of support," it read. "We regret this error and welcome additional support of H.R. 2401."

Clean Air Watch President Frank O’Donnell was shocked when told by The Hill Thursday that his organization was on the list. “Clean Air Watch unequivocally does not support that legislation. Any inference to the contrary is an obvious error,” Clean Air Watch President Frank O’Donnell said. “Is Lady Gaga on there too?”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/183431-republicans-circulate-false-list-of-train-act-supporters

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1. I'm not very charitable towards these assholes. It's a lie, like everything else they say. n/t