NARUC President Kavulla testifies on EPA regulatory activities
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) President Travis Kavulla testified at the Subcommittee on Energy and Power’s hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory activity on Wednesday.
The hearing, “A Review of EPA’s Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors,” sought to examine major concerns pertaining to the organization’s regulatory processes within the energy and industrial sectors since President Barack Obama took the White House. The hearing also addressed additional rules and regulations the organization plans to pursue through the end of the year, such as the Clean Power Plan.
“The EPA’s Clean Power Plan represents a truly significant realignment, for better or worse, in the paradigm of how and by whom utilities should be regulated,” Kavulla said. “[NARUC urges legislators that] traditional regulatory oversight over utility resource planning not be eroded and that low-carbon-emitting resources receive credit in the Clean Power Plan.”
Many issues have been raised with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, including the concern that the initiative does not give credit for coal-fired energy plants. Kavulla testified in support of a return to traditional regulatory oversight.
Many other energy and industrial industry leaders joined Kavulla, including Lynn D. Helms, the director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission’s Department of Mineral Resources, and representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy.
