"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."
Andrew Restuccia and Ben Geman report for The Hill's E2 Wire blog September 22, 2011.
SEE ALSO:
"House Approves Bill To Delay, Scrap EPA Rules" (AP)
