Newt: Abolish the EPA
Politico reports:
Former House Speaker and possible 2012 candidate Newt Gingrich called for abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency in a Tuesday speech in Iowa.
In an address at the Renewable Fuels Summit, Gingrich told attendees—including Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a key figure in the state’s first-in-nation Republican presidential caucuses - that the EPA should be replaced with a new “Environmental Solutions Agency.”
The replacement agency “would encourage innovation, incentivize success and emphasize sound science and new technology over bureaucracy, regulation, litigation and restrictions on American energy,” according to materials provided by Gingrich aide Rick Tyler.
Gingrich also used his speech to challenge President Obama to use his State of the Union address to outline what Gingrich dubbed an “all of the above” energy strategy that would “truly demonstrate he is serious about governing from the center.”
