•      "The rule put forward under the former Administration shut the door on progress. It told companies that no matter how much they invest to reduce harmful emissions, they would still be punished with permanent red tape. That’s not good science, it’s not good governance, and it certainly isn’t good for the environment. My resolution restores a common-sense incentive: if you clean up, you get credit for it." Source: Sen. John R. Curtis (Republican, Utah)

•      "This misguided rule would remove a major incentive for dozens of industries to reduce emissions. It would further saddle American energy producers and manufactures with regulatory costs and burdens, and simply put, operates under a premise that is purely unfair. Under this rule, once you classify as a ‘Major Source’ you are always considered a ‘Major Source.’ You would even be prohibited from ever achieving an ‘Area Source’ status again, even if your emissions output decreased below the applicable threshold. “This tells American manufacturing and energy leaders that no matter what you do, you will always operate under the strictest regulatory standard available. We should, instead, provide incentive for industries to lower their emissions and keep alive the option of returning to an ‘Area Source’ once emissions are reduced. Over the last 20 years, no other country has reduced its emissions like the United States, and we do not need overly restrictive regulations to continue this. Giving our private sector the ability to innovate in a sensible timeline is a different approach than the inflexible, top-down mandate that became accustom over the past four years." Source: Senator Shelley Moore Capito (Republican, West Virginia), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee