10 to watch: GOP freshmen on energy

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10 to watch: GOP freshmen on energy

By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 12/28/10 4:37 AM EST Updated: 12/28/10 6:24 AM EST

House Republican freshmen looking to make names for themselves on energy issues in the next Congress have some goals in common: Ramp up domestic energy production, roll back the Obama administration’s environmental rules and ensure that cap-and-trade stays dead.

There are 87 members of the GOP freshman class. Here are 10 to watch on energy and environmental issues in the next Congress:

David McKinley (W.Va.) — This seventh-generation West Virginian wants to use his seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee to protect his district’s lifeblood — the coal industry. “Coal is West Virginia,” he said in a recent interview. McKinley said he’ll work toward ending what he dubbed the “war on coal that has been under way now for several years from the EPA.” Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency will be one of his top priorities, he said, calling for greenhouse gas rules to be revised and “base them on fact rather than political jargon.”

Cory Gardner (Colo.) — Like many of his colleagues, this newcomer with strong agricultural ties hopes to advance “hearty oversight” of the EPA from his new perch on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

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1. K&R for know thine enemy. nt

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2. K&R for basing EPA rules on fact

rather than jargon.